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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

— A. J. Liebling

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Source: The New Yorker (March 28, 1953), quoted in David Remnick, "Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100", The New Yorker (March 29, 2004)
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