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George Packer

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

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These are some quotes by American author George Packer Novelist, who was born on August 13, 1960.

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Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.

Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.

George Packer

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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

George Packer

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For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.

George Packer

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

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