James Thurber

Author

1894-12-08

Books by James Thurber

Thurber Carnival
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Animal Farm with Connections
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Quotes by James Thurber

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.
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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.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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.
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You have made the moon, The Jester said. That is the moon.
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You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
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I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.
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You have made the moon, The Jester said. That is the moon.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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.
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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.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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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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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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