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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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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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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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