| Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. |
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- James Thurber |
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| The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. |
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- James Thurber |
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| The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. |
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- James Thurber |
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| One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. |
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- James Thurber |
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| I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. |
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- James Thurber |
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| 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. |
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- James Thurber |
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| Love is what you've been through with somebody. |
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- James Thurber |
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| Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. |
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- James Thurber |
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| Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. |
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- James Thurber |
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| You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. |
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- James Thurber |
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| All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. |
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- James Thurber |
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| There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. |
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- James Thurber |
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