The Magic Kingdom Quotes

“This is how the truth gets appropriated and remade in one’s self-interest. This is how the truth gets obliterated.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“didn’t so much aspire to equality as I desired to eliminate inequality.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“why today, now that I am old, I will admit to being a fuzzy-minded socialist, and a weakly committed one at that, a socialist who looks down the ballot, shrugs, and votes for the Democrat candidates despite their shortcomings.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“peroration. He said that in bringing this”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world’s detritus. It’s where you go when your prospects elsewhere have ended, and you’ve not yet settled into despair, and you still think there’s a slight chance you can start over, and no one will notice your previous failings or hold them against you while you gather your bearings and begin again.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world’s detritus.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“Anyone with a lifelong guilty conscience is likely to be a hair-splitting moralist, especially when it comes to other people’s behavior.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom