#edit

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness. ↗

— James Welch

#any #bars #checks #consciousness #constantly

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #american #american family #average #average american

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. ↗

— Robert Welch

#declaring #democracy #editorials #newspapers #ringing

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world. ↗

— John Hall Wheelock

#dullest #editor #exasperating #exciting #hardest

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ↗

— James Whistler

#because #genius #granted #heaven #hereditary

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. ↗

— E. B. White

#assume #cat #editorial #first #first amendment

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. ↗

— Edmund White

#editors #empty #ever #first #i

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bracket #capital #capital gains #child #create

I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help. ↗

— Fred Willard

#cut #dvd #editing #film #fit

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#away #awful #direction #door #editors