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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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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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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
James Thurber
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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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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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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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
