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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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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
— Anne Rice
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza,…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
— Wayne Thiebaud
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The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the…
— Desmond Tutu
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken,…
— Homer
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A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a…
— Robert Bateman
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I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating…
— James Wolcott
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But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from…
— Claudia Gray
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My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare…
— Rick Riordan
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That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to…
— Rick Riordan
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In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which…
— Rick Riordan
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