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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern
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- P.J. O'Rourke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for P. J. O'Rourke: life dates 1947 to 2022. Wikidata Q730017, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730017 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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