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S. J. Perelman Quotes: I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.
         

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.


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