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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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Sarah Jane Vowell
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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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You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.
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What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
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Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.
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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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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
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Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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Radio is the playground of coincidence.
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That's what I like to call him, the current president. I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him the current president because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.
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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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No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of Here I come to save the day versus Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
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If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.
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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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The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.
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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
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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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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
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