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Don’t get it right, just get it written.

James Thurber

I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Man Myself Old Writing
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
JAMES THURBER

Probability Thinking Worth
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBER

Born Children Myself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBER

Mathematics Safety
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
JAMES THURBER

Burden Hands Worth
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER

Face Fall Yourself
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBER

Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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.
JAMES THURBER

Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBER

Body Count Patience Yourself
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
I 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.
JAMES THURBER

Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
JAMES THURBER

Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBER

Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
JAMES THURBER

Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
JAMES THURBER

Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy

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