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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
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Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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James Grover Thurber
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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.
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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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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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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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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.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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