Don’t get it right, just get it written.
JAMES THURBERWomen are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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