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From Quotes by Tom Wolfe
- 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…
- Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
- The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example…
- You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
- [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…
- 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…
- In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to…
- The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some…
- At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East…
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