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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
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James Grover Thurber
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God bless... God damn.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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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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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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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In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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