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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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
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
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
James Thurber
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
James Thurber
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
James Thurber
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurber
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
James Thurber
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
