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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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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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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.
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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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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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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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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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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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