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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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber

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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. – Milarepa

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

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Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. – Charles A. Stoddard

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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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It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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