Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERI never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
More James Thurber Quotes
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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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.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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