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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
Drawer
Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
James Thurber
Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
James Thurber
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
James Thurber
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
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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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God bless... God damn.
James Thurber
