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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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God bless... God damn.
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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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