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"27 James Thurber Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 December 1894. Died: 2 November 1961 | Cartoonist | author | Humorist | Journalist | Playwright |

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Beautiful things Ask Attention
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Human beings Learn Die Running from
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor Emotional chaos Tranquility
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Look back Anger In fear Awareness
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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.

Any belief Immortality Dogs Heaven
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Love is what you've been through with somebody

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

Think If women Children In charge
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake
Most dangerous Food Wedding cake
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

Feel Thing Touch Sorry
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Rise Early to Bed Male healthy
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Dropped Certain desires Friends Death
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We all have faults, mine is being wicked.

Have faults Being wicked
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Man Face Simple truth Trouble
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

Mutual suspicions Mental inadequacy Marriage
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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...

Sophistication Described Ability Cope gracefully
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To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

World Behind walls Draw closer
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Poet Believe Leads Died
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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.

Drawing Dragged down Level Wise
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It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

Impossible Sit quietly Throwing
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Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now.

Times lies Frozen Never now
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Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication.

Wondering Time left Daydreaming World
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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?

Fear Opposition Oblivion Matter
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Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

Man Assumed Highest form Life
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To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature.

Person Humorist Nature Dilemma
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Progress Right Too long
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
Man Troubled Dog wish Happy
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Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

Against May Folly Hope
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James Thurber Quotes & Sayings