"It's fortunate that I am a writer, because……" — Tom Wolfe
"It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed."
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Tom Wolfe
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87 Quotes by Tom Wolfe
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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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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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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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