James Thurber Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”
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“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
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“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
-- James ThurberSource : James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster
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“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
-- James ThurberSource : James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.355, Library of America
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“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
-- James ThurberSource : James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster
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“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
-- James ThurberSource : James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins
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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.”
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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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“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
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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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“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.”
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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.”
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“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”
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“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
-- James ThurberSource : "Lanterns and Lances". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.
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“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
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“One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.”
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“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
-- James ThurberSource : The New York Post, February 29, 1960.
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“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.”
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“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”
-- James ThurberSource : James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America
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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.”
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“Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.”
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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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“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.”
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“Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
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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.”
-- James ThurberSource : James Thurber (1955). “Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs”
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“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”
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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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“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”
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“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”
-- James Thurber
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