All James Thurber Quotes
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber in
Anger
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
James Thurber
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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