Wolfe Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
— Maya Angelou
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow…
— John Charles Polanyi
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I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print…
— David Carradine
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
— Edward Abbey
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
— William Butler Yeats
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Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English…
— Michael Swanwick
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We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration…
— James Connolly
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You don't need Tom Wolfe to tell you that the Buckhead section of Atlanta is the jewel of the city, an area of gracious homes,…
— Florence Fabricant
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Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his…
— Rex Stout
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
— Norma McCorvey
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Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather…
— Thomas M. Disch
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Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character…
— Peter York
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I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists…
— Peter York
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The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
— George Herbert
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Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures.…
— Rex Stout
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight…
— Zadie Smith
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a…
— Pat Conroy
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…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is…
— Richard Linklater
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Can a wolfe be beautiful?
— Markus Zusak
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but…
— Tom Wolfe
Who Wrote These Wolfe Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Wolfe Quotes as follows: