Quote #88

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception

More from James Thurber

  1. There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
  2. There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
  3. The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
  4. Yes, my works lose something in the original.
  5. The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
  6. Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
  7. The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of …
  8. We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

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