Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.Florence King
The proliferation of support groups suggests that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother.
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Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe . . .
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We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to government.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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