142 ordspråk av James Thurber
James Thurber
James Thurber föddes den December 8th 1894 och dog den 2 November 1961 - US writer
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 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. |
| Politically, this is very serious for the president. If the base of his party has lost faith, that could spell trouble for his policy agenda and for the party generally. |
| Politically, war trumps the economy. But the president has very few things that he can brag about right now. He has to point out that the economy is doing very well. It would be foolish not to. |
| Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. |
| running away from the president on the war and Katrina. |
| seems to be exceeding the quota one or two. |
| Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. |
| So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it |
| Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. |
| 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). |
| Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. |
| The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. |
| The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. |
| The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion. |
| 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 |
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