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Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Anything Becomes Cease However Intensely Love Loved Moment To Love You

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I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Feature Gene Love Passion Thousand Writing I Love

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I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Assuming Died Like Question Really Sailor Square Swear

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Once, as my New Year's Resolution, I telephoned the Extenze Male Enhancement hotline every day for a month.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Day Enhancement Every Every Day Male Month New Once Resolution Year

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Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Good Laughs Melt Memory Out Pretty Quickly

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Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Been Could Distance Filters Gathered Instead Just Local Media Only Power Saw Shows Social Social Media Something Steam Story Through Usual

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It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Assemble Look Media Narrative Only Possible Seeing Social Social Media Want You Yourself

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When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Be Kind Cameras Down Going Kind Know Police Shutting Sign Them Truth Truth Is

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President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Bin Demise Deserves Obama Our Praise President President Obama

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All the weird inconveniences of adult life that you thought they made up to lend excitement and color to episodes of 'Sex and the City' are, in fact, real.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Adult Adult Life City Color Episodes Excitement Fact In Fact Inconvenience Lend Life Made Real Sex Sex And The City Thought Up Weird You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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