James Grover Thurber was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his contributions to The New Yorker magazine.
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“I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?”
James Thurber
“It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.”
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.”
“Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.”
“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”
“what they are running from, and to, and why.”
“The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion.”
“Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.”
“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!”