James Thurber Quotes & Quotations

James Thurber Quotes

» Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.

» Discussion in America means dissent.

» But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

» Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

» It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

» Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

» 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.

» With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

» Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

» The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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