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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
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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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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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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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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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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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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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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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