She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBERYou can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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