“Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.”

—  Art Buchwald

A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
Leaving Home (1995).

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journalist, humorist, United States Marine 1925–2007

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