"don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make……" — Tom Wolfe
"don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door."
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87 Quotes by Tom Wolfe
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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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I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
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We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel…
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The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
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