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.
JAMES THURBERComedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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