For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
JAMES THURBERI was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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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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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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