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1. "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
2. "Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner." ~ James Wolcott
3. "My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich." ~ James Wolcott
4. "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." ~ James Wolcott
5. "Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana." ~ James Wolcott
6. "Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized." ~ James Wolcott
7. "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." ~ James Wolcott
8. "What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility." ~ James Wolcott
9. "Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes." ~ James Wolcott
10. "Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good." ~ James Wolcott
11. "With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers." ~ James Wolcott
12. "At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers." ~ James Wolcott
13. "It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in." ~ James Wolcott
14. "People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement." ~ James Wolcott
15. "The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself." ~ James Wolcott
16. "Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night." ~ James Wolcott
17. "High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself." ~ James Wolcott
18. "In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down." ~ James Wolcott
19. "Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking." ~ James Wolcott
20. "And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike." ~ James Wolcott
21. "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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