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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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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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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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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