American - Author | December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
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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.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
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