#who

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. ↗

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chair #defies #his #king #larry

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? ↗

— James Wolcott

#asked #dark #did #get #here

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#every #gods #guilt #i #must

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#bad #bad situation #biggest #come #even

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#i #know #me #wanted #who

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. ↗