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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
Sarah Jane Vowell
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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Even writers need relief from words.
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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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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
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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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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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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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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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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
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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 talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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My audience is going to die before I do.
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
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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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Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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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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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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