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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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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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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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