Quote by James Wolcott
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows do

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. – James Wolcott

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As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a Star Trek future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. – James Wolcott

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Future
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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of Glee, a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of spirit fingers to chase our cares and woes into somebody elses backyard. – James Wolcott

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Beauty
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott

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Art
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Future
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery

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Future

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones. – Ed Markey

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Future

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Future

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully. – Thomas Starr King

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Future

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No news is good news. No journalists is even better. – Nicolas Bentley

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Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half – especially if he has a teenage daughter. – Guy Lombardo

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Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. – Proverb

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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. – Piers Anthony

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