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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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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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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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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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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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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 nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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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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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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