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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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- A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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- All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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- Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
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- Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead
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- He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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- He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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- Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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- 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.
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- I hate women because they always know where things are.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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- Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.
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- Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
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- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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- 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.
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- The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
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- 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.
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- There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
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- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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- There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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- Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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