There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
James ThurberBoys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James ThurberLet me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.
James ThurberIt had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
James ThurberThe most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James ThurberEarly to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.
James ThurberI loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James ThurberThe wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James ThurberWith sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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