James Thurber Quotes
77 James Thurber quotes:
"Don't get it right, just get it written."
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."
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"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)."
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"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."
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"Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead"
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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
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"Whether it's a crisis or not depends on how long these high prices are sustained."
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"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."
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"Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober."
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"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
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"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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"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."
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
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"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."
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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."
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"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."
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"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."
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"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
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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"
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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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