"I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter."

-- James Wolcott

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“no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.35, Penguin
“I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.”
“In this world we must help one another.”
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
“It is better to be envied than pitied.”

Source : Herodotus (1829). “Herodotus: Tr. from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes”, p.212
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
“Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.”

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