{"author":"James Thurber","author_id":"James+Thurber","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"I hate women because they always know where things are.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["hate","know","always "],"id":672,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["greatest","think","resources "],"id":9623,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"You are all a lost generation,' Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["humor"],"id":22649,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["atheism","humour","james-thurber","religion"],"id":28640,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["artists","creativity","mankind"],"id":37694,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["boys","men"],"id":52069,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"The wit makes fun of other persons  the satirist makes fun of the world  the humorist makes fun of himself.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["wit"],"id":55804,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["adulthood","dogs","grief","growing-up","manhood","pets"],"id":65437,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["dog","man","fun "],"id":68986,"author_id":"James+Thurber"},{"text":"Live life by the abc's...Adventure, bravery and creativity.","author":"James Thurber","tags":["adventure","bravery","creativity"],"id":69157,"author_id":"James+Thurber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}