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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
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James Grover Thurber
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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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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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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If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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