James Wolcott Quotes

• Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

  James Wolcott

  Hurt, Laughing, Energy

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• Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

  James Wolcott

  Nostalgia, Entitled

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• As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

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  Wall, Ipods, Cds

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• Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

  James Wolcott

  Art, Book, Design

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• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, Lying, War

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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, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

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  Mother, Strong, Stupid

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• Con "Cisne negro", la saga de las bailarinas da un vuelco a su tiara y se va de juerga alucinante, un espeluznante viaje de ácido en el que confluyen la transfiguración y la desfiguración.

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  Swans, Scary, Black

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• I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

  James Wolcott

  Ambición, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  James Wolcott

  Peace, War, Life Is

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• It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

  James Wolcott

  Voice, Npr, Air

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• Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

  James Wolcott

  Humble, Oil Painting, Average

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• En las primeras semanas de la administración Obama, el "bipartidismo" era la palabra de moda reinante, y cuando el Beltway piensa en "bipartidismo", se imagina al presidente Reagan y al presidente demócrata de la Cámara de Representantes, Tip O'Neill, dejando a un lado sus diferencias y forjando una alianza legislativa, un par de patriarcas geniales estrechando lazos sobre la Piedra Blarney.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, Differences, House

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• People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

  James Wolcott

  Ambición, Pensamiento, Gente

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  James Wolcott

  Blow, Years, Wish

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• It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

  James Wolcott

  Paz, Guerra, Creer

  James Wolcott (2013). “Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs”, p.390, Anchor

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• Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

  James Wolcott

  Talking, Way, Shut Up

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• Mis trabajos de bachillerato y mis redacciones para la universidad parecían Norman Mailer en un sándwich de mantequilla de cacahuete crujiente.

  James Wolcott

  School, College, Paper

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• Hoy en día, el vídeo sexual de un famoso no es un estigma que requiera penitencia y desprestigio; es un dispositivo de marca, un potenciador de la plataforma, un show reel.

  James Wolcott

  Sex, Today, Penance

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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 polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

  James Wolcott

  Fun, Reflection, Class

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• Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Grief, America

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• At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

  James Wolcott

  Voice, Office, Break Out

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• 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.'

  James Wolcott

  New York, Autumn, Editors

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspiración, Danza, Arte

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• What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

  James Wolcott

  Dream, Ghetto, Dope

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• Cada vez que veo un trozo de una comedia de Adam Sandler en la televisión por cable, parece tan mal rodada y tan ridículamente lanzada como un gag reel de Jerry Lewis una vez que cayó en el declive tardío con "A duras penas" y "Cracking Up".

  James Wolcott

  Looks, Comedy, Adam

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