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The currently popular complaint against Clinton among Democrats is that she didn’t communicate an effective “message” to the battleground “rust belt” states that ultimately decided the election.
“Yes, and let’s make sure every American gets a puberty ceremony, an impressive welcome to the rights and duties of grown-ups. As matters now stand, only practicing Jews get those. The only way the rest of us can feel like grown-ups is to get pregnant or get somebody else pregnant or commit a felony or go to war and then come back again.”
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“Your government does not exist and should not exist in order to keep you or anybody else, no matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what religion, from getting your damn fool feelings hurt.”
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“I look upon those who assure me they had a ’happy childhood’ as either pathological liars, or pariahs.”
― Vic and Blood: Stories
― Vic and Blood: Stories
“Humor should not be dissected because nothing lives through dissection.”
― Vic and Blood: Stories
― Vic and Blood: Stories
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