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Tom Wolfe has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar…
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
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I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks…
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…
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If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they…
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When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told…
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,…
— John Woolman
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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to…
— Michael Pollan
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the…
— Andrew Jackson
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In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group…
— Jack Weatherford
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Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to…
— Eric Thomas
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