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My audience is going to die before I do.

Sarah Vowell

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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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Journalist
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
Sarah Jane Vowell
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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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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
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Radio is the playground of coincidence.
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I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.
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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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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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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
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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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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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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Even writers need relief from words.
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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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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The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.
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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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