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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.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.