Quote #79
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
More from James Thurber
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
- No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
- So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
- Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
- Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
- Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
- The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among…