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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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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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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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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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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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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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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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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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