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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
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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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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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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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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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God bless... God damn.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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