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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
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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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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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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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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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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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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God bless... God damn.
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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 knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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 difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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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 past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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