"it is either make this thing permanent inside……" — Tom Wolfe
"it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon."
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Tom Wolfe
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87 Quotes by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe has 87 quotes on this site.
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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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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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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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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
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Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up…
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb…
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When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved…
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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit…
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