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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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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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We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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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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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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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
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My audience is going to die before I do.
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Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that all men are created equal, any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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