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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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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.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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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.
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This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
James Thurber
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
James Thurber
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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