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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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 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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I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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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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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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