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Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Sarah Vowell
Home, Responsibility, Gun
"Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2000.

Even writers need relief from words.

Sarah Vowell
Writing, Relief, Needs

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

Sarah Vowell
Funny, Nice, Book

I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.

Sarah Vowell
Giving Up, Race, Mind
Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

Sarah Vowell
Mean, Fbi Agents, President
FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 31, 2008

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Sarah Vowell
Divine, Relics, Treasured
Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

My audience is going to die before I do.

Sarah Vowell
Audience, Dies

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Sarah Vowell
People, Historical, Violent
FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Apr 15, 2010

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Sarah Vowell
Success, Congratulations, Thinking

Radio is the playground of coincidence.

Sarah Vowell
Radio, Coincidence, Playgrounds
Sarah Vowell (2013). “Radio On: A Listener's Diary”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

Sarah Vowell
Real, Protest, Native
Source: www.motherjones.com

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