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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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James Grover Thurber
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More quotes by James Thurber
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
James Thurber
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
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
James Thurber
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
James Thurber
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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.
James Thurber
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James Thurber
The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
James Thurber
