"Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel."

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James Wolcott

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“I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.”
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.”
“Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.”
“In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.”
“But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.”
“Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.”
“I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.”
“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.6, Vintage

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