Tag: Tom Wolfe
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American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train’s on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
Tom Wolfe
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The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.
Tom Wolfe
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Tom Wolfe
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My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of ‘Les Miserables,’ in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not – and was not interested in – telling a lie.
Tom Wolfe
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Most people don’t read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
Tom Wolfe
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I have no idea who coined the term ‘the New Journalism,’ or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with ‘new’ in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
Tom Wolfe
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The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one’s prose style. That’s why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
Tom Wolfe
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The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when ‘The Washington Post’ suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.
Tom Wolfe
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
Tom Wolfe
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe