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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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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two…
— Robert Caro
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Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.
— Bill Hicks
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The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why…
— Peter R. Scholtes
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Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of…
— Chuck Todd
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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
— Harry S. Truman
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I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
— Meryl Streep
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But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the…
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension…
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job…
— W. Richard Stevens
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Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
— Mark Kostabi
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members,…
— Nancy Pelosi
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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