Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
JAMES THURBERDon’t get it right, just get it written.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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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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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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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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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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 and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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