Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBERSomebody 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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