All James Thurber Quotes
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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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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 only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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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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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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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