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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
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James Grover Thurber
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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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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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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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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