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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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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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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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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'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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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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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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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
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I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
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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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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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