Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
Knew
Stein
Lost
Gertrude
Night
Hemingway
Home
Stayed
Right
Weren
Generation
Generations
Wouldn

More quotes by James Thurber

Image
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
Image
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
Image
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
Image
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.
James Thurber
Image
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
Image
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
James Thurber
Image
Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
Image
It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.
James Thurber
Image
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber
Image
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.
James Thurber
Image
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
James Thurber
Image
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
James Thurber
Image
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
James Thurber
Image
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
James Thurber
Image
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
Image
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
Image
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
Image
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
James Thurber
Image
In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
James Thurber
Image
God bless... God damn.
James Thurber