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James Thurber

James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, journalist, and celebrated wit.

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Tags: Forward, Fear, Back
James Thurber

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Tags: Happen, Old, Unexpected
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.

Tags: Saying, Done, Try
James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Tags: Wedding, Dangerous, Cake
James Thurber

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Tags: Did, Why, Wrong
James Thurber

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Tags: Long, Progress, Went
James Thurber

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Tags: Art, Artists, Steal
James Thurber

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Tags: Emotional, Chaos, Remembered
James Thurber

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Tags: Greatest, Must, Serious
James Thurber

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

Tags: Become, Rather, Nation
James Thurber

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