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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
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
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Columbus
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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
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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
James Thurber
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
James Thurber
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
