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James Thurber

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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
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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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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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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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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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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Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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God bless... God damn.
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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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