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- I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
- I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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