The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBERI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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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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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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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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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 don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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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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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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