Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
JAMES THURBERA pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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 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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on 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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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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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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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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