Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
JAMES THURBERA false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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