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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
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Tom Wolfe
Age: 88 †
Born: 1930
Born: March 2
Died: 2018
Died: May 14
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Nonfiction is never going to die.
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
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It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.
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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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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 don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
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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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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
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If you label it this, then it can't be that.
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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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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
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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.
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Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
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Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
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You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.
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