With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Thurber

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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About James Thurber

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

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