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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.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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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 paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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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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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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.
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