James Thurber Quotes

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• When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
• Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never…
• The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
• Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
• Love is what you've been through with somebody.
• Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
• Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
• I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
• All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
• The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
• Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
• Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
• I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I…
• One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
• Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
• 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…
• 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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