James thurber quotes on writing

James Grover Thurber (8 December – 2 November) was an American humorist and cartoonist.

Quotes

Cartoon captions

• All right, have it your way — you heard a seal bark!
  • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (30 January ); "Women and Men", The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (); also used in "The Lady on the Bookcase", Alarms and Diversions ().

• Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.
  • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July )
  • Borrowing from Blaise Pascal, Pensées, (published posthumously): "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point" (Translation: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.)

• Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
  • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June ); "Word Dance--Part One", A Thurber Carnival ()

• I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
  • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (22 April ); "A Miscellany", Alarms and Diversions ()

• He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
  • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (4 November ). Parody of "I don't know much about art, but I kn

    Love is what you've been through with somebody.

    JAMES THURBER, Life Magazine, Mar. 14,

    All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

    JAMES THURBER, "The Shore and the Sea," Further Fables for Our Time

    Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

    JAMES THURBER, Credos and Curios

    One [martini] is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.

    JAMES THURBER, Time Magazine, Aug. 15,

    Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

    JAMES THURBER, Further Fables For Our Time

    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.

    JAMES THURBER, The Paris Review, fall

    A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

    JAMES THURBER, Lanterns & Lances

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

    JAMES THURBER, attributed, Oxymoronica

    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 t

    + James Thurber Quotes On Education, Friendship And Death

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    James Thurber was an American humorist, cartoonist, and writer. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories published in The New Yorker magazine. He is also known for his humorous autobiographical works such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Following is our collection on famous quotes by James Thurber on education, life, love.

    Top 10 James Thurber Quotes

    1. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
    2. There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
    3. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
    4. All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
    5. But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
    6. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
    7. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
    8. The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
    9. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
    10. Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without bein

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