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Quotes from Assassination Vacation — Sarah Vowell

born 1969 United States

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Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

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.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

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.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarah Vowell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.