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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
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James Grover Thurber
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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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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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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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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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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.
James Thurber
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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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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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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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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God bless... God damn.
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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 always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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