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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 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.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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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.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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