I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
JAMES THURBERI write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
More James Thurber Quotes
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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