Thursday, December 08, 2016

James Thurber

“I’m not an artist. I’m a painstaking writer who doodles for relaxation.”

“The notion that writers of humor are gay of heart and carefree is curiously untrue. … To call such persons ‘humorists,’ a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature. The little wheels of their invention are set in motion by the damp hand of melancholy.”

“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
― James Thurber

“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.”
― James Thurber

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
― James Thurber

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
― James Thurber

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”
― James Thurber

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
― James Thurber

“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
― James Thurber

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
― James Thurber

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