Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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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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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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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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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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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