Quotes for the Depression Forums 8-22

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
-- Ronald Reagan

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004