Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBERUnless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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History 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.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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