They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays;… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Well … things are beginning to stack up a little,” said Gordo. It was the same old sod-hut drawl. He sounded like the airline… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
