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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
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Humorist
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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James Grover Thurber
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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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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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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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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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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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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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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