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All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.
— Alexandra Petri
Tags: time, business, thoughts, great

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Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.
— Alexandra Petri
Tags: fun, girl, you, life
Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
— Alexandra Petri
Tags: because, everyone, who, generation
Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
— Alexandra Petri
Tags: where, own, my-own, i-am
Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice of religion on campus is largely inaudible.
— Alexandra Petri
Tags: voice, debate, religion, thoughts
My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.
— Alexandra Petri
Tags: than, far, me, hope
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