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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

~James Thurber

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

~James Thurber

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 8th, 1894

Died: November 2nd, 1961

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