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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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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More quotes by James Thurber
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
James Thurber
Don't get it right, just get it written.
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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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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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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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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
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
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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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.
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
James Thurber
God bless... God damn.
James Thurber
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
James Thurber
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
James Thurber
