The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBERI have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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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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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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