Discussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBERHumor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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