Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
JAMES THURBERThere is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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