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S.J. Perelman

1 February 1904-17 October 1979

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A Farm is an irregular patch of nettles, bound by short term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

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Groucho Marx is a major comedian, which is to say that he has the compassion of an icicle, the effrontery of a carnival shill, and the generosity of a pawn broker.

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Hollywood is a dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals, and taste so degraded that it befouled everything to touch it.

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Love is the distant chord of a violin and the triumphant twang of a bed spring.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

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Philadelphia is a metropolis sometimes known as the City of Brotherly Love, but more accurately as the City of Bleak November Afternoons.