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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

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. — Sarah Vowell

My lips are chapped from the winds of change. — Sarah Vowell

I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy. — Sarah Vowell

Technically, it's a family restaurant, but it will only remind you of your family if your mom chain-smoked menthols. — Sarah Vowell

Don't bring up McKinley. Don't bring up McKinley. — Sarah Vowell

As if I was never nicknamed 'Wednesday' as in 'Adams'. — Sarah Vowell

It requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace ... — Sarah Vowell

Radio is the playground of coincidence. — Sarah Vowell

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance. — Sarah Vowell

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

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. — Sarah Vowell

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life. — Sarah Vowell

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. — Sarah Vowell

The air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something. — Sarah Vowell

I revere the Bill of Rights, but at the same time I believe that anyone who's using three or more of them at a time is hogging them too much. (152) — Sarah Vowell

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

The only people who know about me are people who would know about me. — Sarah Vowell

Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport. — Sarah Vowell

Freedom of the press, the surest guaranty of the rights of man. — Sarah Vowell

I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind. — Sarah Vowell

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. — Sarah Vowell

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath. — Sarah Vowell

So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it. — Sarah Vowell

I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world. — Sarah Vowell

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

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? — Sarah Vowell

There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money. — Sarah Vowell

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. — Sarah Vowell

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that. — Sarah Vowell

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing. — Sarah Vowell

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. — Sarah Vowell

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed. — Sarah Vowell

The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories. — Sarah Vowell

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. — Sarah Vowell

While history might be full of exemplary fathers, recorded history is not where to find them. — Sarah Vowell

I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race. — Sarah Vowell

Americans' fatal tendency of disunion. — Sarah Vowell

I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever. — Sarah Vowell

If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading. — Sarah Vowell

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all. — Sarah Vowell

Behind every bad law, a deep fear. — Sarah Vowell

After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2. — Sarah Vowell

There's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism. — Sarah Vowell

Even writers need relief from words. — Sarah Vowell

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'? — Sarah Vowell

I am pro-plaque. — Sarah Vowell

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. — Sarah Vowell

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety. — Sarah Vowell

Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart. — Sarah Vowell

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. — Sarah Vowell

Never have I enjoyed such swearing, before or since. Sir, on that memorable day, he swore like an angel from Heaven. — Sarah Vowell

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers. — Sarah Vowell

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in. — Sarah Vowell

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

Did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence - applied — Sarah Vowell

I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence. — Sarah Vowell

[I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. — Sarah Vowell

Luther's point was that, according to Scripture, salvation is not a bake sale: — Sarah Vowell

My audience is going to die before I do. — Sarah Vowell

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

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left. — Sarah Vowell

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

She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.). — Sarah Vowell

Freedom of expression truly exists only when a society's most repugnant nitwits are allowed to spew their nonsense in public. — Sarah Vowell

I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye. — Sarah Vowell

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't? — Sarah Vowell

The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky. — Sarah Vowell

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. — Sarah Vowell

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me. — Sarah Vowell

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. — Sarah Vowell

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter — Sarah Vowell

I love reading and am always stuck in one labrinth of letters or other — Sarah Vowell

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers. — Sarah Vowell

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy - other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington - it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty. — Sarah Vowell

Picpus Cemetery, where Lafayette is buried under dirt from Bunker Hill. — Sarah Vowell

The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say. — Sarah Vowell

A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts. — Sarah Vowell

it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces. — Sarah Vowell

a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master. — Sarah Vowell

That, to me, is the quintessential experience of living in the United States: constantly worrying whether or not the country is about to fall apart. — Sarah Vowell