Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me … - James Thurber

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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.

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James Grover Thurber (8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.

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