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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
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
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Love
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Sex
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Two
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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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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Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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