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James Thurber Quotes

James Thurber quotes

American Comedian December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961

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James Thurber quote: "Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on..."
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber
James Thurber quote: "Love is what you've been through with somebody."
Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Thurber
James Thurber quote: "I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?"
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you? James Thurber
James Thurber quote: "These are the days of bootleg love."
These are the days of bootleg love. James Thurber
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life."The firefly's ?" said the minstrel."The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire. James Thurber
Taking a single letter from the alphabet," he said, "should make life simpler."I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder. James Thurber
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. James Thurber
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends. James Thurber
James Thurber quote: "I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot..."
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart. James Thurber
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. James Thurber
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. James Thurber
It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa. 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. James Thurber
Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley. James Thurber

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