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James Thurber

"Love is what you've been through with somebody." — James Thurber
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American Comedian    Funny    Love    Valentine's Day   

James Thurber

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess" — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"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 (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband)." — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing." — James Thurber
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"One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough." — James Thurber
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"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years." — James Thurber
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American Comedian    Boys    Funny   

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"The most dangerous food is wedding cake" — James Thurber
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"It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption" — James Thurber
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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." — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness" — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language." — James Thurber
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"With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs." — James Thurber
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"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception" — James Thurber
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"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy." — James Thurber
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"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." — James Thurber
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"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why." — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." — James Thurber
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American Comedian    Anger    Funny   

James Thurber

"Katrina took away his agenda, and maybe his image as a leader, unless he pulls it out in the next few days. His initial reaction was certainly not as quick and compassionate as a lot of people would have liked." — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps." — James Thurber
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"Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them" — James Thurber
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James Thurber

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption." — James Thurber
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American Comedian    Funny   

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