Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. — Quoted

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“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”

James Thurber · Funny

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James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Future

James Thurber

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Home

James Thurber

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Age

James Thurber

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

Fear