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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.
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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God bless... God damn.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
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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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