Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
JAMES THURBERIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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