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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.
James Thurber
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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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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God bless... God damn.
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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