I cannot say that James Thurber’s work has progressed. No more than I could say that the new moon is more exquisite than the last one. I will not be so illiterate as to expand the perfect into the more perfect.
Perfect Quotes
The very pink of perfection.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Perfection is the child of time.
Perfectionism is slow death.
Perfection, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
Get a shot off fast, this upsets him long enough to make your second shot perfect.
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
