Try QuoteGPT
Chat naturally about what you need. Each answer links back to real quotes with citations.
The sharp edges of old reticences are softened in the autobiographer by the passing of time - a man does not pull the pillow over his head when he wa… - James Thurber
" "The sharp edges of old reticences are softened in the autobiographer by the passing of time - a man does not pull the pillow over his head when he wakes in the morning because he suddenly remembers some awful thing that happened to him fifteen or twenty years ago, but the confusions and the panics of last year and the year before are too close for contentment. Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress and the careful ordering of event so necessary to a calm and balanced exposition of what, exactly, was the matter.
English
Collect this quote
About James Thurber
James Grover Thurber (8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Also Known As
Native Name:
James Grover Thurber
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by James Thurber
It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know what it meant. She was forever climbing up the margins of books and crawling between their lines for the little gold of phrase, making marks with a pencil. As Palamides hunted the Questing Beast, she hunted the Figure of Speech. She hunted it through the clangorous halls of Shakespeare and through the green forests of Scott.
Enhance Your Quote Experience
Enjoy ad-free browsing, unlimited collections, and advanced search features with Premium.
Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a gesture of surrender and a fixed grin, but White has always taken to the fire escape. He has avoided the Man in the Reception Room as he has avoided the interviewer, the photographer, the microphone, the rostrum, the literary tea, and the Stork Club. His life is his own. He is the only writer of prominence I know of who could walk through the Algonquin lobby or between the tables at Jack and Charlie's and be recognized only by his friends.
-on his friend E.B. White
Loading...