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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
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James Grover Thurber
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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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.
James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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God bless... God damn.
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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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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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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