Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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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.
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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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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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