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Quote by James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. - James Thurb

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. – James Thurber

Other quotes by James Thurber

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber

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Light
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James Thurber
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. – James Thurber

Category:
Home
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James Thurber
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. – James Thurber

Category:
Humor
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James Thurber
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

One doesnt have a sense of humor. It has you. – Larry Gelbart

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Humor

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldnt take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. – Dianne Wiest

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Humor

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

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Humor

If I cant see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny? – Casey Affleck

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Humor

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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Career, Vocation

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl S. Buck

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alone

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. – Helen Rowland

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Women

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven oclock in the morning and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. – Moss Hart

Category:
Morning