Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERShe wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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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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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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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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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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