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James Thurber
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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James Thurber
I hate women because they always know where things are.
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James Thurber
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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James Thurber
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.
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James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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James Thurber
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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