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" I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. "
Tom Wolfe
Age
Think
Evolution
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" Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face. "
Tom Wolfe
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Thanks
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" I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. "
Tom Wolfe
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Who
Met
" The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk. "
Tom Wolfe
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Spring
" You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. "
Tom Wolfe
You
Your
Background
" The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity. "
Tom Wolfe
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" The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's. "
Tom Wolfe
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Two
Three
" 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. "
Tom Wolfe
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Year
My Own
" To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page. "
Tom Wolfe
You
Discovery
Know
" Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has. "
Tom Wolfe
You
World
Know
" Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed. "
Tom Wolfe
Internet
Strength
You
" The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. "
Tom Wolfe
Writing
Newspaper
You
" I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' "
Tom Wolfe
Understanding
History
Life
" I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind. "
Tom Wolfe
Say
People
Vote
" My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. "
Tom Wolfe
Me
Career
People
" If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. "
Tom Wolfe
Been
Arrested
Conservative
" 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
Think
Complain
People
" The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. "
Tom Wolfe
Vanity
Loneliness
Cure
" I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?' "
Tom Wolfe
Attitude
Parents
Time
" I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. "
Tom Wolfe
Important
Believe
Half
" A cult is a religion with no political power. "
Tom Wolfe
Religion
Power
Cult
" 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
Side
Else
Away
" 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
Art
Game
Long
" 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. "
Tom Wolfe
Way
Pretty
Stop
" If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are. "
Tom Wolfe
Honest
Want
Difference
" Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. "
Tom Wolfe
Pot
Miami
Melt
" 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. "
Tom Wolfe
You
Imagination
Doing
" If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer. "
Tom Wolfe
Today
Choice
Search
" I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. "
Tom Wolfe
Modern
History
Art
" Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. "
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Driving
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" Nonfiction is never going to die. "
Tom Wolfe
Die
Never
Going