Quote

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Tom Wolfe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Wolfe
Age: 88 †
Born: 1930
Born: March 2
Died: 2018
Died: May 14
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Thomas Kennerly
Jr. Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly Tom Wolfe
Jr.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe
None
Around
Rattle
Melt
Miami
Melting
Pot
Stones

More quotes by Tom Wolfe

Image
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.
Tom Wolfe
Image
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.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
Tom Wolfe
Image
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
Image
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays it's one exclamation point to another.
Tom Wolfe
Image
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe
Image
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.
Tom Wolfe
Image
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
Image
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
Tom Wolfe
Image
(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.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
Tom Wolfe
Image
If you label it this, then it can't be that.
Tom Wolfe
Image
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Nonfiction is never going to die.
Tom Wolfe
Image
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
Image
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Tom Wolfe
Image
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.
Tom Wolfe
Image
You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
Tom Wolfe
Image
I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
Tom Wolfe