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Tom Wolfe quotes

American Journalist, Writer March 2, 1931

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility. Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe quote: "I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very..."
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
They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of every rebellious, iridescent shade of Magenta, pink, and tropical green imaginable. But the architect returned, as he always does, like the conscience of a Calvinist, and he lectured them and hectored them and chucked the shimmering little sweet things out. Tom Wolfe
One day [Kahn] walked into a classroom and began a lecture with the words: "Light ... is." There followed a pause that seemed seven days long, just long enough to re-create the world. Tom Wolfe
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
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creatur? That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. Tom Wolfe
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
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
How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements...How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles. Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe quote: "The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United..."
The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe. Tom Wolfe
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
Tom Wolfe quote: "We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the..."
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe quote: "the road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom"
the road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe quote: "I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu..."
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
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it.... Tom Wolfe

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