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Sarah Vowell

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Sarah Vowell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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Muskogee
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Sarah Jane Vowell
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
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What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
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You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
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I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.
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