“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”

— Art Buchwald

As quoted in "Art Buchwald Celebrates His Life" a profile on CNN Newsroom (2 November 2006) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/02/cnr.06.html.

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