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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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James Grover Thurber
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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.
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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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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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God bless... God damn.
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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.
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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
James Thurber
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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