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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (8 December1894 – 2 November1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.

Quotes

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  • All right, have it your way — you heard a seal bark!
    • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (30 January 1932); "Women and Men", The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (1932); also used in "The Lady on the Bookcase", Alarms and Diversions (1957).
  • Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs.

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    Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.

    • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July 1935)
    • Borrowing from Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 (published posthumously): "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point" (Translation: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.)
  • Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

    • Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June 1937); "Word Dance--Part One", A Thurber Carnival (1960)
  • I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
    • Cartoon caption, The New York james thurber quotes you might as well2 MIC