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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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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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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber
The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
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
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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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
James Thurber
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
James Thurber
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
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
