"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
-Peter De Vries
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"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
-Peter De Vries
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
-Peter De Vries
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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