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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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Humorist
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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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.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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.
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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.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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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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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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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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