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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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It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
— Aimee Mann
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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…
— James Wolcott
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But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the…
— Stuart Dybek
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Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who…
— Knut Hamsun
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you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?…
— Haven Kimmel
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To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning…
— Pablo Neruda
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Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium…
— Wilhelm Wien
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