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James Thurber Quotes
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Famous James Thurber Quotations
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United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)
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- All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber »
- Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber »
- He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. James Thurber »
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. James Thurber »
- 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. James Thurber »
- I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber »
- I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. James Thurber »
- I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James Thurber »
- It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. James Thurber »
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber »
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber »
- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. James Thurber »
- 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. James Thurber »
- The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber »
- There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber »
- There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber »
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