Tom Wolfe Quotes

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• Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it,…
• Put your good where it will do the most!
• You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
• Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
• A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time -…
• Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know…
• And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to…
• America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never…
• (W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of…
• What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will…
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,…
• A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.
• Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
• Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the…
• If you label it this, then it can't be that.
• You're either on the bus or off the bus.
• The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass…
• They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from…
• a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only…

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