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Sarah 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.


— Sarah Vowell


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My audience is going to die before I do.


— Sarah Vowell


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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.


— Sarah Vowell


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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.


— Sarah Vowell


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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.


— Sarah Vowell


#believe #creed #everlasting #gave #god

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?


— Sarah Vowell


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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.


— Sarah Vowell


#full #good #good stories #got #history

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.


— Sarah Vowell


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I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.


— Sarah Vowell


#american history #colony #crazy #doing #drove

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.


— Sarah Vowell


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"annexed Hawaii Puerto Rico and Guam and invaded Cuba and then the Philippines becoming a meddling self-serving militaristic international superpower practically overnight. Her writing has been publiSarah Vowelld in The Village Voice Esquire GQ Spin The New York Times Los Angeles Times and the SF Weekly and Sarah Vowell has been a regular contributor to the online magazine Salon. In 2005 Vowell served as a guest columnist for The New York Times during several weeks in July briefly filling in for Maureen Dowd.

Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27 1969) is an American author journalist essayist and social commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer" Vowell has written six nonfiction books on American history and culture most recently Unfamiliar FiSarah Vowells which was publiSarah Vowelld in 2011. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film The Incredibles.

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