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James Thurber Quotes


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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.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Woman's place is in the wrong.
[Women]

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
[Funny]

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
[Risks]


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