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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
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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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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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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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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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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