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Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

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Oct 27, 2019 02:24PM

“Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: boredom, disease, ennui, health, hypochondria, idleness, laziness

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“As I watched them I knew I'd probably never be like that.”
― Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete

tags: fate, jealousy, loneliness, outsider, poverty, voyeurism

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“In the waning decades of the twentieth century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as matters of law and order than as matters of life and death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How this sorted out came to depend upon party affiliation.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

tags: 1960s, 20th-century, abortion, conservatives, death, guns, law-and-order, liberals, life, murder

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“Jefferson's hatred of Hamilton was complicated by jealousy of Washington's affection for the younger man... The continuing intellectual debate over the Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian rival systems of government takes on a new and richer dimension if seen against the backdrop of the personal drama of this remarkable triangle.”
― FAWN BRODIE

tags: founding-fathers, hamilton, jefferson, love-triangle, revisionist-history, the-closet, washington

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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