"What had brought me to New York in……" — James Wolcott
"What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'"
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James Wolcott
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54 Quotes by James Wolcott
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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