Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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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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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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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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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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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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