Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
JAMES THURBERThe 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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