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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and

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

Other quotes by James Thurber

Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber

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Women
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James Thurber
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From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber

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Grammar
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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. – James Thurber

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Risk
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

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Humor

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. – Lynda Barry

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Humor

But if you dont watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me. – Marion Ross

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Humor

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you cant read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesnt read that way. – Michael Buble

Category:
Humor

Random Quotes

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. – Thomas Fuller

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great

I didnt have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, lets say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! – Henry Miller

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inspirational

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. Youre young enough to get away with things, but youre old enough, too. – Liv Tyler

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Age

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. – Immanuel Kant

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Knowledge