"Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group……" — Tom Wolfe
"Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus."
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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 Allegorical Quotes
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and…
— Annie Besant
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one…
— Stanley Kubrick
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I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In…
— Christopher Langan
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Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is…
— Unknown Author
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
— Barbet Schroeder
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Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one…
— Russell Brand
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to…
— Jon Meacham
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The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went…
— George Orwell
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Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The…
— Tennessee Williams
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Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like…
— China Mieville
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