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"History, an enterprise requiring human effort, is often written from national motivations. History, in order to be scholarly, must in some way be freed from the limits this imposes." ~Timothy Snyder

kvetchlandia: Gore Vidal     Uncredited Photographer     1955 “We’re the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody’s afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.”  Gore Vidal, from “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire Magazine  2008

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Gore Vidal     Uncredited Photographer     1955

“We’re the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody’s afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.”  Gore Vidal, from “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire Magazine  2008

Posted March 7, 2011 at 9:25 am

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