“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.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor
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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.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor
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“Art–the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conflict
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“Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conformity
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“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Comedy
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“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“It’s better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Purpose
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“He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Attitude
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“Art — the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Persuasion
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“I love the idea of there being two sexes, don’t you?”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Women
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“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Anger
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“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Lying
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“He who hesitates is sometimes saved.”
James Thurber
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Decisiveness
