"A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection."

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James Wolcott

#Fun Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Class Quotes

“Socialism is a monster, which will die.”
“I think it's important to do great work.”
“To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.”

Source : "My California: Journeys by Great Writers". Book edited by Donna Wares, 1999.
“I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.”
“It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.”
“People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.”
“Within the problem lies the solution”
“What we don't include is as important as what we do include.”

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