335 Quotes by James Thurber

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    Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

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    I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.

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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.

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    Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

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    Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness

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    One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.

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