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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
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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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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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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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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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