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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
James Thurber
The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
James Thurber
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
Don't get it right, just get it written.
James Thurber
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
James Thurber
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
James Thurber
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
James Thurber
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
