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I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
Art Buchwald
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Art Buchwald
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 20
Died: 2007
Died: January 17
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An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
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Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
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I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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