Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
JAMES THURBERDon’t get it right, just get it written.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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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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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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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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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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