"Even the most piddling life is of momentous……" — James Wolcott

"Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner."

— James Wolcott

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54 Quotes by James Wolcott

James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most…
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse…
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast…
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow…
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age…
I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's…
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of…
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class…

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More Antiwar Quotes

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own… — Joseph Addison
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

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