James Thurber Quotes
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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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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Woman's place is in the wrong.
[Women]
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
[Funny]
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
[Risks]
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