All James Thurber Quotes
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber
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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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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
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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.
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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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.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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 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.
James Thurber
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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