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.
JAMES THURBERComedy 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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