Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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