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Tom Wolfe Quotes

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism Picture Quote #1

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle Picture Quote #1

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed Picture Quote #1

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested Picture Quote #1

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history Picture Quote #1

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave Picture Quote #1

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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit Picture Quote #1

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened Picture Quote #1

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion Picture Quote #1

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in it's heart it is part of Society and it's traditions Picture Quote #1

There has been a time on Earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone Picture Quote #1

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this:

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved Picture Quote #1

Dear mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some beautiful people and Picture Quote #1

Don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols Picture Quote #1

It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference Picture Quote #1

What I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write Picture Quote #1

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down! Picture Quote #1

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about Picture Quote #1

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved it's goal Picture Quote #1

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The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's Picture Quote #1

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another Picture Quote #1

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination Picture Quote #1

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are Picture Quote #1

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don’t know Picture Quote #1

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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism (Tom Wolfe Quotes) I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed (Tom Wolfe Quotes) If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested (Tom Wolfe Quotes) We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history (Tom Wolfe Quotes) This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave (Tom Wolfe Quotes) There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit (Tom Wolfe Quotes) The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened (Tom Wolfe Quotes) The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in it's heart it is part of Society and it's traditions (Tom Wolfe Quotes) There has been a time on Earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus... or off the bus." (Tom Wolfe Quotes) We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past (Tom Wolfe Quotes) 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 (Tom Wolfe Quotes) It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Dear mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some beautiful people and (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door (Tom Wolfe Quotes) 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 (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols (Tom Wolfe Quotes) It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference (Tom Wolfe Quotes) What I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write (Tom Wolfe Quotes) America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down! (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved it's goal (Tom Wolfe Quotes) The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's (Tom Wolfe Quotes) People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another (Tom Wolfe Quotes) It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are (Tom Wolfe Quotes) Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don’t know (Tom Wolfe Quotes)

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