Quote #17

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. (sic)

More from James Thurber

  1. Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
  2. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.
  3. It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
  4. All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
  5. Don't get it right, just get it written.
  6. All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
  7. He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
  8. The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

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