Author: James Wolcott

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- James Wolcott

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

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

- James Wolcott

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

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

- James Wolcott

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

- James Wolcott

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