My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. Tom Wolfe More Quotes by Tom Wolfe More Quotes From Tom Wolfe Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols. Tom Wolfe realizing care sometimes I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. Tom Wolfe waiting looks firsts The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe being-alone lonely loneliness 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 atheism hippie attitude Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. Tom Wolfe painting these-days theory Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus. Tom Wolfe groups becoming mind 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 america people years 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 exclamation-points people thinking 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. Tom Wolfe editors father thinking 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 massachusetts three two it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon. Tom Wolfe glimpse towers forever I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound. Tom Wolfe light two long Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. Tom Wolfe fathers-day dad inspirational don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door. Tom Wolfe emotion doors sometimes 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 quality joy people 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. Tom Wolfe being-alone loneliness life (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 matter feelings writing The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned. Tom Wolfe mass divine world I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. Tom Wolfe important half believe 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 males new-york spring
