Tom Wolfe Quotes

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• There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first…
• If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make…
• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and…
• A cult is a religion with no political power.
• Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
• Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
• I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
• On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
• The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
• Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
• God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
• I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
• I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
• I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
• I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.
• I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I…
• I'm a great believer in outlines.
• I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
• Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

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