Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Quote by James Thurber

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Don't get it right, just get it written

Don't get it right, just get it written

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the...

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the...

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the...

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face...

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face...

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that...

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that...

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those...

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those...

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow,...

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow,...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...