Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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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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