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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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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
— Deepak Chopra
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I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with…
— Lucretia Mott
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You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a…
— Rajneesh
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I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain…
— Rajneesh
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Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very…
— Rajneesh
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Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.
— Darren Rowse
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
— John Ralston Saul
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Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East…
— Ron Silver
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system…
— Jacques Derrida
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When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused…
— Julia Serano
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So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's…
— Kevin DeYoung
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