James Thurber Quotes
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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'Who are you?' the minstrel asked. 'I am the Golux,' said the Golux, proudly, 'the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device.'
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If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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All right, have it your way - you heard a seal bark!
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.