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Tom Wolfe
American
Journalist
About the author
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Universe
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,
American
Journalist
#Acting
#Past
#Present
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Man
#Beauty
#Artist
#Eternity
#Glory
#Miser
#Glutton
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Power
#Religion
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Conservative
#Liberal
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Painting
#Theory
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Conservative
#Liberal
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Now
#American
#History
#Religious
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Will
#Expression
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,
American
Journalist
#People
#First
#Spirit
#Quality
#Joy
#Richness
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Style
#Heart
#Society
#Traditions
#Radical
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,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Freedom
#Religion
#Change
#Attitude
#Values
#Example
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Public
#Art
#Fiction
#Romantic
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Cure
#Loneliness
#Vanity
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Life
#Being
#Belief
#Men
#Fact
#Conviction
#Existence
#Loneliness
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,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Now
#Earth
#Man
#Men
#Woman
#Destiny
#Poets
#Famous
#Genius
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,
American
Journalist
#Leaders
#Fact
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Tom Wolfe,
American
Journalist
#Earth
#Woman
#Act
#Cooking