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What’s the reason for studying history? To understand the present or avoid it?
Americans like their presidents to have no more than two vowels. Truman. Johnson. Nixon. Clinton. If they have more than two vowels (Reagan), they can have no more than two syllables. Even better is one syllable and one vowel: Bush. Had to do that twice.
“There was nowhere I could go that wouldn’t be you.”
I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
Was I really a slut? I hadn’t even liked it.