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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
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James Grover Thurber
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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