“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed.
Quotations by Tom Wolfe, American Journalist, Born March 2, 1931. What is it you're looking for in this endless quest?
\"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast\", in Harper’s Magazine (November 1989)
Inspirational Tom Wolfe Quotes Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. ” “Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.” Soon's you got that, you want a plantation, tens of thousands of acres devoted solely to shooting quail, because you know of four or five developers who've already got that. - the Non-people. Tom Wolfe. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit. – Tom Wolfe.
“Put your good where it will do the most!” At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.
“What do you mean, blindly? “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.” At this moment I'm a man with complete tranquillity...I've been a real estate developer for most of my life, and I can tell you that a developer lives with the opposite of tranquillity, which is perturbation. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.” “Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.” The attitude is we live and let live. Me! “A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! “None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. Most Famous Tom Wolfe Quotes. - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels!
Don’t freeze up. ', and 'There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.' Me! His doors of perception have not yet been closed. What we are, we're going to wail with on this whole trip.” “It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. “Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.” “Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.” They rattle around. Be the first to learn about new releases! "The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction.
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.”
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” ― … That's what I do, I kick people in the ass.' You build your first development, and right away you want to build a bigger one, and you want a bigger house to live in, and if it ain't in Buckhead, you might as well cut your wrists. but you can't stop it. Tranquillity. ', 'I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.
Nothing you can give me is worth surrendering that freedom for.