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Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

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Oct 27, 2019 02:24PM

“...I would train myself to make my work so mechanical that I could concentrate much of my energy on listening and watching. My knowledge, I believed, would still the voices of despair inside me.”
― Robert Parker, Capitol Hill in Black and White

tags: despair, knowledge, listening, training, watching, work

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“To have a standing army. Good God! What can be worse to a people who have tasted the sweets of liberty.”
― Andrew Eliot

tags: army, liberty, military, united-states

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“For the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the suspension of their own mores when they came in contact with the Indian nations was quite the opposite of battle, bringing not horrors, but the guiltless pleasure of a liaison unlike any in the United States- unlike any, because it didn't have to be arranged, induced, concealed, limited, remunerated, or sanctified.”
― Julie M. Fenster, Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

tags: adultery, fornication, guilt, lewis-and-clark, marriage, native-american, nonmonogamy, polygamy, prostitution, sexual-freedom

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“Like Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, Jefferson kept his intimate feelings hidden from the public, either in triumph or in crisis.”
― Fawn Brodie

tags: fdr, jefferson, lincoln, scandal, the-closet

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“[Europeans lived] in dense, settled populations- cities- where human & animal waste breeds vermin, like mice and rats and roaches. Most of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, though, didn't live in dense settlements, and even those who lived in villages tended to move with the seasons, taking apart their towns and rebuilding them somewhere else. They didn't accumulate filth, and they didn't live crowds. They suffered from very few infectious diseases.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States