"It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans."

-- Finley Peter Dunne

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“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.”

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“Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.”
“Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”
“If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.”
“Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.”
“Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.”
“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.”
“The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.”

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