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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
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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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
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