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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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James Grover Thurber
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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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