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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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The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years;…
— Albert Einstein
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When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had…
— Graham Parker
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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.…
— Tom Waits
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A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as…
— James Wolcott
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I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner…
— Anne Fortier
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
— Sydney Smith
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Ohh now I got to pay to borrow suspenders, I thought this was America.
— Unknown Author
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