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Letter "J" » James Thurber Quotes
«The most dangerous food is wedding cake»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| About:
Food,
Funny,
Marriage
| Keywords:
cake, wedding, weddings, wedding cake
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.»
«The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.»
«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
decline, English language, give and take, interviewed, interviewing, interviews, off-hand, offhand, opposition, oral, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, The Decline, the English, The Interview
«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.»
«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»
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attempting, cold comfort, comet, Comets, comforting, consolation, contradiction, contradictory, inherited, our planet, patterns, presents, Revelations, scarcely, skies, vanish, vivid
«Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, counseling, edit, edited, editing, editor, piece of writing, tendency, writing style
«It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amused, breeding, burgundy, domestic, naive, presumption, presumptions
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