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.
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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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 am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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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 are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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