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Most Quotes by Tom Wolfe
- I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
- Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
- I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on…
- The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of…
- Put your good where it will do the most!
- 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…
- 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,…
- [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 most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
- When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was…
- His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle