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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.

James Thurber

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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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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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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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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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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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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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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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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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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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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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