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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

"Bonfire of the Vanities

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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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As hand-to-hand combat has gradually disappeared . . . Americans have turned to the automobile to satisfy their love of direct aggression.
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he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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and observe for himself, and who has hunger for it.
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid test.

title of novel on hippy culture (1968)

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A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) ch. 24

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The bonfire of the vanities.

title of novel (1987); deriving from Savonarola’s ‘burning of the vanities’ in Florence, 1497

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