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Lori Sadowski is currently reading

Devil's Daughter (The Ravenels, #5)

by Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads Author)

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Lori’s Quotes

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: being-right, confidence, correctness, exactitude

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“Since they did not understand one another, each was able to sustain an illusion about the other, which was the usual beginning of love, if not truth.”
― Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar

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“As for our Ouija-board Supreme Court, it would be nice if they would take time off from holding séances with the long-dead founders, whose original intent so puzzles them, and actually examine what the founders wrought, the Constitution itself and the Bill of Rights.”
― Gore Vidal, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

tags: bill-of-rights, constitution, supreme-court

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“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.”
― Gore Vidal, Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories

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“Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.”
― Gore Vidal, Selected Essays

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