“When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”

—  Sarah Vowell , book Take the Cannoli

Source: Take the Cannoli

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American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator 1969

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