A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
JAMES THURBERI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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 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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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