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I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

Matt Groening

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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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Matthew Abram Groening
Matthew Groening

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You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on. Homer Simpson
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I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
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But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
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