Danielle Dulchinos

“These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance—the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“Unflinching creeds and consuming worldviews could lead to catastrophe, for devotees of doctrine tended to fall in love with their own righteousness, ignoring inconvenient facts. He”
― Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

“He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price. Quaint, yes: But it happened, in America, only a quarter of a century ago.”
― Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush