| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61262 |
| QUOTATION: | In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Thurber (1894–1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator. “Peace, It’s Wonderful,” Collecting Himself (1989). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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