У меня очередная трагедия в пяти актах.
Стоит только загореться желанием почитать что-нибудь стоящее как оказывается что сейчас это печатают только в (!) Нью-Йорке.
Придется шерстить весь интернети в неравных боях выпрашивать у несчастных иностранцев поделиться.))

Тем не менее завтра вы получите отличную лекцию о нем.
О Джэймсе Тербере.

А пока его цитаты.


  • "Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?"

  • "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

  • "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

  • "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

  • "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

  • "One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."

  • "There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

  • "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean too far backward"

  • "Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right." Thurber went on to clarify his conception of women by saying, "If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on."

  • "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

  • "All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

  • “Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”
    James Thurber


Его первая книга - Is sex necessary? 1929 год.