James Thurber Quotes

• Even if Boss DeLay leaves, his legacy stays.

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• It’s like Tito leaving Yugoslavia. He ruled with fear, and so did Tom DeLay. Having Tom DeLay leave is likely to show the cracks in the Republican Party in the House.

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• Whether it’s a crisis or not depends on how long these high prices are sustained.

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• He’s very bright, but he’s too extreme for a lot of people.

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

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

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• A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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• From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ”After dinner, the men moved into the living room.” I explained to the professor that this was Rose’ way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.

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• Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

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• He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

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• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

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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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• Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

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• Discussion in America means dissent.

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

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

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

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• So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.

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James Thurber (141)

Birth:	8th December, 1894
Death:	2nd November, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Journalist, Playwright, Writer

About

James Grover Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an American cartoonist, journalist, short story writer and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, such as "The Catbird Seat", published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. He served as a reporter for the New York Evening Post. He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1927 as an editor. He wrote several short stories include: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Unicorn in the Garden, The Moth and the Star, The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, A Couple of Hamburgers, and The Princess and the Tin Box. He wrote several plays include: The Male Animal and A Thurber Carnival. He wrote several Children's books include: Many Moons, The White Deer, The 13 Clocks, and The Wonderful O. He wrote his autobiography, entitled My Life and Hard Times.

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