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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
James Thurber
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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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.
James Thurber
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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God bless... God damn.
James Thurber
