“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June 1937); "Word Dance--Part One", A Thurber Carnival (1960)
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Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber On Writing And Writers, Humor And Himself

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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

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