Facts about Tom Wolfe

Occup.	Journalist
From	USA
Born	March 2, 1931
Age	94 years

Summary

Tom Wolfe is a famous Journalist from USA, he/she is 94 years old and still alive, born March 2, 1931.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 19 quotes who is written / told by Tom.

Related authors: Ken Kesey (Author), Gay Talese (Journalist)

19 Famous quotes by Tom Wolfe

"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested"

Tom Wolfe

"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

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live"

Tom Wolfe

"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

"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

"A cult is a religion with no political power"

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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting"

Tom Wolfe

"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"

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"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

"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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"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave"

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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness"

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"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history"

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"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested"

Tom Wolfe

"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"

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"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"

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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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"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"

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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