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You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the s...

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I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen ato...

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There is such a thing as too much couth.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it...

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S. J. Perelman

Humorist

Born: 1904-02-01

Died: 1979-10-17

Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and writer for the stage and screen. He co-wrote screenplays for the Marx Brothers (Monkey Business and Horse Feathers), and for Around the World in Eighty Days. He contributed sketches to The New Yorker.More