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Tom Wolfe quotes about people

American Journalist, Writer March 2, 1931

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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
They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard. Tom Wolfe
Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found each other. Tom Wolfe
I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game... Tom Wolfe
None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit. If somebody is an ass-kicker, then that's what he's going to do on this trip, kick asses. He's going to do it right out front and nobody is going to have anything to get pissed off about. He can just say, 'I'm sorry I kicked you in the ass, but I'm not sorry I'm an ass-kicker. That's what I do, I kick people in the ass.' Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever... Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe quote: "Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have..."
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. 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: "My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported..."
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe quote: "You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes..."
You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. Tom Wolfe

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