"Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between."

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Source : Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Sarah Vowell

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“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”

Source : "The Death of the Author" (1968)
“I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.”
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
“I'm much more interested in Mike Tyson than I am in Morrissey.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“Thereâ€™s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, itâ€™s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.”
“The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.”

Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.
“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”
“I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.”

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