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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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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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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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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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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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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
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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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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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