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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
James Thurber
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
James Thurber
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
James Thurber
A wet dog is lovingest.
James Thurber
Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
James Thurber
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
James Thurber
The Old Man ain't afraid of hell.
James Thurber
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
God bless ... God damn.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Occupation:
American Cartoonist
Born:
December 8, 1894
Died:
November 2, 1961
Quotes count:
138
Wikipedia:
James Thurber
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