History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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 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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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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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