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Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

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Oct 27, 2019 02:24PM

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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