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James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
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Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off…
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In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our…
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
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That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.
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Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny…
— Johnny Carson
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A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
— Neil Genzlinger
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God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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