“I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.”

— Studs Terkel

Regarding his 95th birthday in "Give 'Em Hell, Mr. Terkel" (16 May 2007) by Amy Goodman http://web.archive.org/web/20070613211416/http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/51990

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American author, historian and broadcaster 1912–2008

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