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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
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Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
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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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God bless... God damn.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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