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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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James Grover Thurber
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More quotes by James Thurber
She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
James Thurber
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
James Thurber
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
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
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
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
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.
James Thurber
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
James Thurber
