“I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.”

"I Like Dogs", For Men (April 1939); reprinted in People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994); slightly paraphrased in "And So to Medve", Thurber's Dogs (1955)
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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

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