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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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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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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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