"Dear Mother, I meant to write you before……" — Tom Wolfe
"Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and..."
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87 Quotes by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe has 87 quotes on this site.
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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything…
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
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I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have…
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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely…
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of…
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More Beautiful Quotes
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
— Alexis Arguello
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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