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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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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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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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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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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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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