Thurber Quotes

• Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

  Lynne Truss

  Hombres, Dar, Respuestas

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• It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

  James Thurber

  Mother, Hate, Garden

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• El humor es, en mi opinión, la más sutil y la más chispeante de las formas literarias. Seguramente no es casual que haya mil novelistas, ensayistas, poetas o periodistas por cada humorista. Pasa mucho, mucho tiempo entre James Thurbers.

  Leo Rosten

  Time, Laughter, Thinking

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1959). “The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n”

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• Los líderes son solucionadores de problemas por talento y temperamento, y por elección. Para ellos, el nuevo entorno de la información -que socava los antiguos medios de control, abre los viejos armarios del secretismo, reduce la relevancia de la propiedad, la llegada anticipada y la ubicación- debería parecer menos una letanía de problemas que una agenda para la acción. Buscando una forma de describir la energía emprendedora de su legendario editor Harold Ross, James Thurber dijo: "Siempre estaba inclinado hacia delante, empujando algo invisible hacia delante". Esa es la postura adecuada para un ejecutivo del conocimiento.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Media, Apertura, Editores

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). "El ejecutivo del conocimiento: liderazgo en una sociedad de la información", E P Dutton

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

  Shel Silverstein

  Work, Creating, Style

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• 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

  Arte, Niños, Escritura

  1961 In the New Yorker, 11 Nov. Tribute to James Thurber.

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• Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

  Tom Shales

  Kids, Talking, Adults

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• I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

  James Thurber

  Party, Writing, Wife

  James Thurber, Thomas Fensch (1989). “Conversations with James Thurber”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

  Sophy Burnham

  Party, Writing, Expression

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.23, Penguin

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