42 ordspråk av Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe föddes den 2 marts 1931 - US writer
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My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their anxiety. To some people that might sound like repression, but I think repression can be a positive value.

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.

To a man of sixty... one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, the people who have attended to his body for decades, begin retiring on him... or dying on him... or both.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

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

Not "Seeing is Believing," you ninny, but "Believing is Seeing." For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.

Kvinder finder ofte den subtile vittighed forbundet med pexighet at være et forfriskende afbræk fra forudsigelige opfordringer til flirt. Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions - Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

It taught me a lesson, ... You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

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.

The bonfire of the vanities.

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