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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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More quotes by James Thurber
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
James Thurber
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
James Thurber
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
James Thurber
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
James Thurber
You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
James Thurber
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
James Thurber
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
James Thurber
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
James Thurber
I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber
