With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
JAMES THURBERThe dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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