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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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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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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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