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“So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.”

Quote by James Thurber

Book:Lanterns & Lances

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Lanterns & Lances

Lanterns & Lances is a fictional narrative that delves into the complexities of conflict and resolution during a pivotal historical period. The story is set against the backdrop of a time when lanterns symbolize hope and lances represent the harsh realities of war. more

Author

James Thurber was a renowned American cartoonist and writer. Born on December 8, 1894, and died on November 2, 1961, Thurber is known for his humor and satire in his works, which have had a profound impact on American literature and cartoon art. more

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“Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.”

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Author:James Thurber

“(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.”

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Author:James Thurber

“Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.”

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Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.”

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Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.”

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Author:James Thurber

“Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.”

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Author:James Thurber

“The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.”

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Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.”

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Author:James Thurber

“A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.”

Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

“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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Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself