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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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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 paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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