Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBERMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBERArt – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBERI always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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.
JAMES THURBERI was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
JAMES THURBERSixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBERThe dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
JAMES THURBERNowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERAmericans want to go to heaven without dying.
JAMES THURBERA burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
JAMES THURBERHistory is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
JAMES THURBERThe most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERWith sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
JAMES THURBERWhen all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
JAMES THURBERHumor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBERLove is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER