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| James Thurber
Don't get it right, just get it written.Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home. It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough.Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion. 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. Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs. |
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