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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

— Harpo Marx Harpo Speaks! (1961)

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If I'm trapped in a theatre, and a show starts disappointingly, I have a handy way of avoiding it: I fall asleep.

Harpo Speaks! (1961)

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years too late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

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No worse than a bad cold.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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