"Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times."

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Source : "Kinsley: The Coddled American Voter". articles.latimes.com. January 06, 2012.

Michael Kinsley

#Iowa Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.”
“One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.”
“Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.”

Source : "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.
“If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357
“We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.”
“Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.”
“... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.”

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