Frank Bruni Quotes

#1. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

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#2. Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

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#3. Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

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#4. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

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#5. Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

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#6. My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

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#7. I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

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#8. Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.

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#9. After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

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#10. Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

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#11. [Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

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#12. He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

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#13. In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

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#14. The inclination to consider UPenn, not attendance at UPenn, is the key to future earnings.

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#15. College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

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