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James-thurber

James Thurber
(American Comedian)

Date of Birth:: December 8, 1894
Date of Death:: November 2, 1961
Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 139
Times favorited:: 74

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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James Thurber

“Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.”

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James Thurber

“Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.”

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James Thurber

“Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.”

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James Thurber

“Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.”

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James Thurber

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception”

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James Thurber

“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.”

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James Thurber

“One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.”

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James Thurber

“Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn”

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James Thurber

“A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps”

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James Thurber

“Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.”

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