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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
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
Artist
Art
Remember
Littles
Complete
Little
Artists
Men
Unless
Boys
Half

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