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James Thurber

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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 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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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.


— James Thurber


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


— James Thurber


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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.


— James Thurber


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


— James Thurber


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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.


— James Thurber


#artists #boy #complete #half #little

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.


— James Thurber


#faults #mine #wicked

Love is what you've been through with somebody.


— James Thurber


#been #love is #somebody #through #you

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


— James Thurber


#face #fall #far #flat #lean






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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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