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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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