When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
JAMES THURBERI 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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 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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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