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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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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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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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