"Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you."

-- Will Shetterly

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“What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.”
“I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.”
“It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.”
“Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.”

Source : "Merging Physical and Digital in Fashion" by Nicola Formichetti, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2011.
“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

Source : "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.
“. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death”
“The American people are very, very ready for a woman president. They're far ahead of the politicians. I always thought it would be much easier to elect a woman president of the United States than Speaker of the House, because the people are far ahead, as I say, of the electeds, on the subject of a woman being president.”
“You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.”

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