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James Thurber Quotes


"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again...."

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"A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps..."

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"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them..."

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"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from,..."

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"Discussion in America means dissent...."

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"Get it right or let it alone. The conclusion you jump to may be your own...."

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"He who hesitates is sometimes saved...."

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"Humor is emotional chaos emembered in tranquility...."

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"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a..."

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

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"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get..."

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"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have..."

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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 the answers...."

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"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything...."

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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in..."

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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation...."

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"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and..."

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"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of..."

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"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms..."

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

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"The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may..."

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

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

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

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"When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than..."

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"While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either...."

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"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?..."

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"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more...."

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"Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according..."

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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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