Quote #90
Yes, my works lose something in the original.
More from James Thurber
- There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
- Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
- There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception
- We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
- There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
- Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
- Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.