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A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe
Age: 88 †
Born: 1930
Born: March 2
Died: 2018
Died: May 14
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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.
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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.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, Please God, don't let me look poor. In the year 2000, they prayed, Please God, don't let me look old. Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.
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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
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Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
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I'm a great believer in outlines.
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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
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Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
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(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.
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Nonfiction is never going to die.
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
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His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.
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Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
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My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
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