Quotes of Thurber - somelinesforyou

“ Facetiously is the only English word that has all six vowels in order, James Thurber declared. "Oh," replied copy editor Miss Gould, "What about abstemiously?". ”

- David Remmick

“ Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. ”

- E. B. White

“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”

- Curt Rosten
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