Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBERI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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 difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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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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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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