James Thurber Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
 
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Suggest Revision: The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
 
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Suggest Revision: The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
 
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Suggest Revision: The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
 
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Suggest Revision: There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
 
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