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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
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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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.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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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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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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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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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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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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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.
James Thurber
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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