For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
JAMES THURBERA burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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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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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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