James Wolcott Quotes
I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.
James Wolcott
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph
There's a lot more to me than just power.
Canelo Alvarez
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. Naipaul
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis
That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
Ted Cruz
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
Marilyn Ferguson
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
Stephen Sondheim
There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
Ben Lerner
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.
M. F. K. Fisher
I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.
James Wolcott
