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.
JAMES THURBERMan has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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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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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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