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Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
American Journalist
Born: Mar 2, 1931
Died: May 14, 2018
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. Tom Wolfe
Conservative Liberal Arrested Been Mugged
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Tom Wolfe
Beautiful Woman Cooking Dinner Beautiful Woman Earth Someone More She Than Loves Act Appealing Spectacle
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Tom Wolfe
Life Myself Loneliness Rare Men My Life Inevitable Few Conviction Other Solitary Rests Fact Existence Curious Human Being Central Human Existence Far Whole Belief Now Phenomenon Peculiar
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. Tom Wolfe
Life Man Beauty Hungry Miser Glory Artist Eternity Then Slave
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe
Loneliness Vanity Surest Cure
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
Quality Communication People Joy Communicate Some People First Everything Physical Some Spirit Touch First Of All Them Then Richness Who
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about. Tom Wolfe
Love Great Me Writing Joy Out Great Joy About Write Writers Adventure Know Most Still Discovering Reporting Going Things
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
Comforting Problem Believe Way Mad High Solved High Places Fact Put Leaders Make Terrible Sure Got Very In Fact Places Who Things
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
Art Game Long Before Completed Distributed Trophies Merely Knows Accepts Modern Modern Art Fiction Romantic Anything Happened Public Notion Rejects
You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. Tom Wolfe
You Clothes Background Never How How Much Lining Realise Much Your
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
Wait Settle Easy Find Never Never Forget Scores Very Forget Forgive Harbor Grudge
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. Tom Wolfe
Wait First Walks Situation Bit Backward See Look Then Milieu Who Novels
I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in. Tom Wolfe
Work Me Man Try Situation Everybody Mars More Arrive Discovered Fit Effective Than Any Maybe Much Now
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. Tom Wolfe
Half Important Believe Out Come Most Nonfiction Still The Most Important Literature Century Second
There is no motivation higher than being a good writer. Tom Wolfe
Good Higher Writer Good Writer Motivation Than Being
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 its goal. Tom Wolfe
Communism Way Pretty Costly Idealistic Spread Goal Did Stop Achieved Which Really Vietnam Thing
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page. Tom Wolfe
Life Me You Try Assume Trip Know Readers Discover Discovery Them Page Your Many Novels Things Bring
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. Tom Wolfe
Life Me Animal Battle Words Made Power Changed Once Complex Status Kingdom Properties Writer Because Understand Am Been Acquired Aggressiveness Fortunate Helped Among Humans Speech
Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. Tom Wolfe
Melt Melting Melting Pot Pot Rattle Around None Miami Stones Which
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. Tom Wolfe
Great Me History Wave Religious Seeing Decade American Roll American History Upward Now Third
Nonfiction is never going to die. Tom Wolfe
Never Nonfiction Die Going
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them. Tom Wolfe
Time Good Great Good Time Lying Punctuation Say Must Had Along Pieces Around Came Dormant Them Many Using Found
A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe
Religion Political Political Power Power Cult
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. Tom Wolfe
Three Become Few Universe Others Hundred Had He Masters How Five Wall Wall Street Precisely Many Street Four
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers. Tom Wolfe
Time World Overwhelming Our Join Studies Doctorate Real Times American Disease Experiences The Real World Real World Which Urge Grip Newspapers Working Twisted Received Started By The Time
Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face. Tom Wolfe
Intelligence Word Face Giving Thanks Sense Manly Typical Defined Complexity Nerd Nerds Some No Sense Never Been Male Precisely Psychological Connotations Creature Level
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