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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
Drawer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
Inspirational
Tranquility
Humour
Remembered
Chaos
Quiet
Emotional
Humor

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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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.
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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.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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?'
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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