Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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