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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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