“ The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became ''real'' according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: ''I swallow it, therefore it is… ”
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“ True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ”
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“ Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty — as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. ”
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“ In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ”
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
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“ The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ”
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
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“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
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“ Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ”
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“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
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“ American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. ”
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“ The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family. ”
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
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“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
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“ American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. ”
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“ The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ”
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“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
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“ The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became ''real'' according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: ''I swallow it, therefore it is… ”
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
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“ Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ”
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
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“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
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“ People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. ”
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“ Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. ”
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