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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
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Humorist
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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God bless... God damn.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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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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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.
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