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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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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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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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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
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
She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
James Thurber
I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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God bless... God damn.
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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.
James Thurber
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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