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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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 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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
James Thurber
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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God bless... God damn.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
James Thurber
