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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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James Grover Thurber
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More quotes by 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
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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.
James Thurber
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
James Thurber
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
James Thurber
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber
You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
James Thurber
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
James Thurber
The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
James Thurber
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
James Thurber
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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
