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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
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James Grover Thurber
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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
James Thurber
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber
