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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
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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)
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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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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