Tag: Tom Wolfe
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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
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‘No Hands’ art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.
Tom Wolfe
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There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. ‘The Saturday Evening Post’ and ‘Collier’s’ both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology… the new way of killing time.
Tom Wolfe
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I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along – and I must say I had a good time using them.
Tom Wolfe
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Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
Tom Wolfe
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved.
Tom Wolfe
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No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain’s performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can’t control, namely, speech.
Tom Wolfe
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Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
Tom Wolfe
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Tom Wolfe
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‘Why’ is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?
Tom Wolfe