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I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.
Art Buchwald
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Art Buchwald
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 20
Died: 2007
Died: January 17
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I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.
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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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I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.
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If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
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