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.
JAMES THURBERLooks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
More James Thurber Quotes
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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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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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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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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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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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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