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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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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Humorist
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James Grover Thurber
Indecision
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Hesitates
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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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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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.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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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
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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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.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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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.
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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