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James Thurber - From the Aging category:
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Awareness category:
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Deception category:
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Drawing category:
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Drawing category:
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Drunkenness category:
One martini is all right, two is too many, three is not enough. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Failure category:
It's hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Grace category:
Those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men leave behind them something real and warmly personal... the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Humour category:
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Humour category:
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Individuality category:
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Knowledge category:
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Light category:
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Pets category:
If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Questions category:
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (James Thurber)
James Thurber - From the Rules category:
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. (James Thurber)
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