Quote by James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but i

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. – James Thurber

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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. – James Thurber

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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. – James Thurber

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Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven. – Thomas Fuller

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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