But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
JAMES THURBERSomebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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