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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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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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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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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 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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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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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
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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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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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.
James Thurber
