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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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 make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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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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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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