Tag: Tom Wolfe
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I don’t think journalists should talk about whom they’re voting for.
Tom Wolfe
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom Wolfe
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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
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In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.
Tom Wolfe
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That’s mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.
Tom Wolfe
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I’ve never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
Tom Wolfe
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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
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Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
Tom Wolfe
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can’t see a painting.
Tom Wolfe
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I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
Tom Wolfe