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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
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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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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