19 Quotations by Tom Wolfe
- 1. A cult is a religion with no political power.
- 2. A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
- 3. America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n ...
- 4. Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
- 5. If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, ...
- 6. If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. ...
- 7. Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, ca ...
- 8. On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become ...
- 9. Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
- 10. The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short ...
- 11. The only real possession you'll ever have is your character.
- 12. The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to rememb ...
- 13. The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and ...
- 14. There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to ev ...
- 15. There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now ...
- 16. There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking d ...
- 17. To a man of sixty... one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, ...
- 18. We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ag ...
- 19. What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone ...
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