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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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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
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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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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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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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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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You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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