James Thurber



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"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

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"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."

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"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."

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"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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"I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."

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"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy."

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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."

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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."

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"There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."

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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

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"The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself."

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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."

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"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone"

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"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."

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