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James Thurber Quotes

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American Comedian December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961

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Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends. James Thurber
Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley. James Thurber
James Thurber quote: "The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an..."
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. James Thurber
James Thurber quote: "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can..."
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. James Thurber

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