"Even hostile parodies admit from the start that……" — Tom Wolfe

"Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice."

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87 Quotes by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything…
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we…
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have…
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely…
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of…
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see…

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

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