Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERProgress was all right. Only it went on too long.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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