But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
- Life
- 1894-1961
- Occupations
- journalist, writer, novelist
- Notable works
- My World and Welcome to It, The Last Flower, My Life and Hard Times
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From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
James Thurber
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
James Thurber
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
One great advantage which poetry has over prose—one sense in which, we might even say, it is considerably more beautiful—is that it fills up space approximately three times as rapidly.
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.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber