When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. - James Thurber
" "When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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About James Thurber
James Grover Thurber (8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.
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I can do a score of things that can’t be done.
I can find a thing I can’t see, and I see a thing I can’t find.
The first is time, and the second is a spot before my eyes.
I can feel a thing I cannot touch, and I touch a thing I cannot feel.
The first is sad and sorry, and the second is your heart.
What would you do without me? Say “nothing”.
He would say to a suitor, “What is the difference in the length of my legs?” and if the youth replied, “Why, one is shorter than the other,” the Duke would run him through with the sword he carried in his swordcane and feed him to the geese. The suitor was supposed to say, “Why, one is longer than the other.
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