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1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
“Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon)
Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)”
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Novelist 1965Related quotes
Source: The New World Order in ...And the truth shall set you free
“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”
“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)
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Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber On Writing And Writers, Humor And Himself