Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. “Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. That is the purpose of life.”, “Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.”, “Don’t get it right, just get it written.”, “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”, “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”, “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”, “There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”, “There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”, “Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. Two are too many, and three are not enough. One martini is all right. The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. JAMES THURBER, Time Magazine, Aug. 15, 1960. A room without books is like a body without a soul. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. 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. You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. Love is what you've been through with somebody. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. It took me about ten years to learn. JAMES THURBER, Life Magazine, Mar. It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home. JAMES THURBER, Life Magazine, Mar. . I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." JAMES THURBER, "The Shore and the Sea," Further Fables for Our Time. That’s fine. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night. My usual method, though, is to spend the mornings turning over the text in my mind. Discover and share James Thurber Quotes. I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. JAMES THURBER, New York Times Magazine, Dec. 7, 1958. Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger. Thurber is best known as a humorist and cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine. 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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