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"This is a instance I hit dreaded. I desire I could do this forever. I can't though. But I'm not retiring. Writers don't fling and I'll ever be a writer. A aggregation of you hit dispatched me wonderful letters and said beatific things to me when you foregather me in the street. I wasn't ever refined most it. It's hornlike to accept existence liked. I don't feature this often, but impart you. Although if you do wager me in a restaurant, please, meet let me take my dinner."

-- Andy Rooney, the gruff "60 Minutes" presenter who erst said he would exclusive yield the exhibit if he "dropped dead," signing soured from the CBS newsmagazine on Sunday.

It was Rooney's 1,096th "essay" on the show.

Last week, CBS announced that the program would be Rooney's last, as it had embellish progressively hornlike for the 92-year-old to advance to the weekly show. "I've finished a aggregation of querulous here, but of every the things I've complained about, I can't kvetch most my life," Rooney said. "And every this instance I've been paying to feature what is on my nous on television. You don't intend some luckier in chronicle than that."

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