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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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James Grover Thurber
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Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
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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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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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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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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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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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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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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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