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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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 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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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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Don't get it right, just get it written.
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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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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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