"The world was simply and sheerly divided into……" — Tom Wolfe
"The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned."
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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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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what…
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or…
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly…
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my…
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I…
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