"No machines will ever truly fully figure the……" — Tom Wolfe
"No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech."
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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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A…
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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
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