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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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Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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.
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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.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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
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
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
James Thurber
