And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game...” It's just a question of where it's going to go.”
“You're either on the bus or off the bus.” – Tom Wolfe. Soon's you got that, you want a plantation, tens of thousands of acres devoted solely to shooting quail, because you know of four or five developers who've already got that. “The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.
We have rounded some profound quotes and sayings by Tom Wolfe which have been excerpted from his works, interviews, public utterances, novels, stories, writings, books, thoughts and life. “Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow. – Tom Wolfe It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.” If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. You build your first development, and right away you want to build a bigger one, and you want a bigger house to live in, and if it ain't in Buckhead, you might as well cut your wrists. “A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.” Me! The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.”
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.”
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“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.” “A cult is a religion with no political power.” Read through the compilation of quotable and notable quotes and thoughts by Tom Wolfe on movies, books, death, vanities, documentary, new-york, conservative, life, success, flower, sleep, dark, looks, night, land, home, loneliness, America, country, literature, society, liberal, style and more. Tom Wolfe.
“They were...well, Beautiful People! ', 'I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once. What is it you're looking for in this endless quest? Nothing you can give me is worth surrendering that freedom for. “And - of course! “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.” ', and 'There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.' Me! but you can't stop it. “Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.” “It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! At this moment I'm a man with complete tranquillity...I've been a real estate developer for most of my life, and I can tell you that a developer lives with the opposite of tranquillity, which is perturbation. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit. “What do you mean, blindly? They're screaming Me! “A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” ― … If he … Me!
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