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James Thurber

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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.


— James Thurber


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


— James Thurber


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


— James Thurber


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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.


— James Thurber


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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.


— James Thurber


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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.


— James Thurber


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


— James Thurber


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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?


— James Thurber


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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.


— James Thurber


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God damn" according to Helen Thurber. National Register of Historic Places: his childhood Thurber House in Ohio and the Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House in Fairfield County Connecticut. Robert Lopresti)
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber 1994 (ed.

James Grover Thurber (December 8 1894 – November 2 1961) was an American author cartoonist and celebrated wit. One of the most popular humorists of his time Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people.

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