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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.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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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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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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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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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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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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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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