All James Thurber Quotes
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
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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
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
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