James Thurber - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939)

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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

James Thurber

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

James Thurber

The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

James Thurber

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Thurber

"To hell with the handkerchief," said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

James Thurber

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

James Thurber

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

James Thurber