335 Quotes by James Thurber

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    No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

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    Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

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    The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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    Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

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    Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

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    Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

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