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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.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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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 blueprint—old man propaganda.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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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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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
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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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Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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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.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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