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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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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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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I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
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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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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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