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“On one university campus there is a fifty-foot-tall pair of leaning tubes, ten feet in diameter, painted various shades of red and orange, and apparently struggling with each other. The maker has named it The Covenant. Students wisely call it Dueling Tampons.”
― Bad, or the Dumbing of America
― Bad, or the Dumbing of America
“Grandfather's skirts would flap in the wind along the churchyard path and I would hang on.”
― Bad Blood
― Bad Blood
“I'm even a fool at the flower arrangement. I ought to have a Ph.D. in the subject the number of classes I've been to but still my efforts show as much evidence of art as walking sticks in an umbrella stand.”
― Bed Among the Lentils
― Bed Among the Lentils
“Thus, BAD. The United States especially overflows with it because of all countries it is the most addicted to self-praise and complacency - even more than France.”
― Bad, or the Dumbing of America
― Bad, or the Dumbing of America
“Then the school chaplain offered a prayer, lecturing God on the many unprecedented challenges that face today's young people. God must have heard this sort of thing before, he's probably as bored with it as the rest of us.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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