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James Lileks quotes: She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

James Lileks quotes: The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

James Lileks quotes: She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town.

She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town.

James Lileks quotes: It's always something when you let other people in your world.

It's always something when you let other people in your world.

James Lileks quotes: I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks quotes: Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

James Lileks quotes: The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

James Lileks quotes: We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.

We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.

James Lileks quotes: The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

James Lileks quotes: I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

James Lileks quotes: This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.

This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.

James Lileks quotes: Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

James Lileks quotes: There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

James Lileks quotes: If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.

James Lileks quotes: I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.

I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.

James Lileks quotes: If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

James Lileks quotes: I love the early hours of the day. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

I love the early hours of the day. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

James Lileks quotes: If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention.

If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention.