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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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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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
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
James Thurber
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
James Thurber
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
James Thurber
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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
