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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist [more author details]

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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
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.: James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.: James Thurber
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.: James Thurber
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I hate women because they always know where things are.: James Thurber
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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.: 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
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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
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The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.: James Thurber
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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.: James Thurber
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.: James Thurber
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: 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, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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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.: James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?: James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

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