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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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• In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

  James Wolcott

  Reality, One Direction, Passivity Is

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

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  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  James Wolcott

  Team, Book, Moon

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• Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

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  Kings, Stars, Princess

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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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• I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

  James Wolcott

  Snow, Fiction, World

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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 comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

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  Romantic, Romance, Comedy

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• Robert Pattinson es el rebelde cool encarnado: el James Dean de los muertos vivientes.

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  Rebel, Dean, Undead

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• Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

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  Children, People, Alcohol

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