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Sarah Vowell quotes about history

American Author December 27, 1969

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Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell quote: "History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and..."
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. Sarah Vowell
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. Sarah Vowell
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of... Sarah Vowell
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell quote: "American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the..."
American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. Sarah Vowell

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