The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Quote by James Thurber

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Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Don't get it right, just get it written

Don't get it right, just get it written

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the...

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

Love is like the wind. You cannot see it... But you can feel it.

Love is like the wind. You cannot see it... But you can feel it.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions....

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions....

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a...

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a...