“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit”

—  Buster Keaton

Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt

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American actor and filmmaker 1895–1966

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