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.
JAMES THURBERDon’t get it right, just get it written.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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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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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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