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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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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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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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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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?
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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