Frases de James Thurber

James Grover Thurber, , foi um escritor, humorista, cartunista, jornalista e dramaturgo americano.Thurber era mais conhecido por seu desenhos animados e contos, publicados principalmente na revista The New Yorker e recolhidos em seus numerosos livros. Um dos mais populares humoristas de seu tempo, Thurber retratou as frustrações e excentricidades das pessoas comuns. Em colaboração com o seu amigo de faculdade Elliott Nugent , ele escreveu a comédia da Broadway O Animal macho, mais tarde adaptada para um filme, estrelado Henry Fonda e Olivia de Havilland.

Devido a um ferimento de infância, Thurber perdeu uma vista. Foi progressivamente perdendo a visão no olho que lhe restou. A sua vista piorava à medida que ia crescendo. Também sofreu de um problema na tireóide por mais de 2 anos nos anos 50, e morreu devido às complicações que surgiram após a remoção de um tumor benigno no cérebro.

Thurber trabalhou arduamente durante os anos 20, tanto nos Estados Unidos como em França, para se estabelecer como escritor profissional. Entretanto, único entre as principais figuras literárias americanas, ficou igualmente bem conhecido pelos seus simples, surrealistas desenhos e cartoons. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Dezembro 1894 – 2. Novembro 1961   •   Outros nomes James Grover Thurber
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James Thurber Frases famosas

“Não podemos olhar pra trás com raiva nem para frente com temor mas em volta com consciência.”

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness
Credos and Curios‎ - Página xi, de James Thurber - Publicado por Harper & Row, 1962 - 180 páginas

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“Todos os homens deveriam se esforçar para aprender, antes da morte, do que estão fugindo, para onde vão e por quê?”

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why
Further Fables for Our Time‎ - Página 174, de James Thurber - Publicado por Simon and Schuster, 1956 - 174 páginas

“Uma pitada de provavelmente vale um quilo de possivelmente.”

A pinch of probably is worth a pound of perhabs.
citado em "The World's Greatest Wacky One-Line Jokes" - de Bob Phillips - Harvest House Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0736914269, 9780736914260 - p. 89

James Thurber: Frases em inglês

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

"The Shore and the Sea", Further Fables for Our Time (first publication, 1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”

James Thurber livro The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Fonte: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Don't get it right, just get it written.”

"The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). The moral is ironic with respect to the fable, in which sheep do insufficient research before writing about wolves, resulting in the sheep being easy prey.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Variante: Don't get it right, just get it written.

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

Quoted in New York Post (29 February 1960)
Letters and interviews

“It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.”

"The Scotty Who Knew Too Much", The New Yorker (18 February 1939)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”

Lanterns and Lances‎ (1961), p. 146; also misquoted as "There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
From Lanterns and Lances‎

“Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.”

"The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Queen and in Harper's Magazine.
From Lanterns and Lances‎

“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling Man up to its level of sagacity, but Man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”

"An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings

“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June 1937); "Word Dance--Part One", A Thurber Carnival (1960)
Cartoon captions
Fonte: Collecting Himself: James Thurber On Writing And Writers, Humor And Himself

“One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.”

Quoted in Time Magazine (New York, 15 August 1960) from an an interview with Glenna Syse of the Chicago Sun-Times
Letters and interviews

“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”

"The Owl who was God", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Parody of "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

“Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance — a sharp, vindictive glance.”

"My Senegalese Birds and Siamese Cats", Holiday Magazine; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances‎