Don’t get it right, just get it written.
JAMES THURBERFor one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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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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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 never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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