Two Kinds of Light

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
~ in Edward R. Murrow television interview

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

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
~ "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)

~ James Thurber
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)
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