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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.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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