44 Motivational Quotes By Tom Wolfe, A Wordsmith Whose Words Will Live On Forever
Tom Wolfe was a prolific American novelist. His writings include many short stories, novellas, four lengthy novels as well as dramatic works. He is renowned for blending highly impressionistic, poetic, original and rhapsodic prose with autobiographical writing. He is regarded as one of the most illustrious writers of North Carolina and an adept of autobiographical fiction. He remains to be a pivotal writer in modern American literature. We have rounded some profound quotes and sayings by Tom Wolfe which have been excerpted from his works, interviews, public utterances, novels, stories, writings, books, thoughts and life. Read through the compilation of quotable and notable quotes and thoughts by Tom Wolfe on movies, books, death, vanities, documentary, new-york, conservative, life, success, flower, sleep, dark, looks, night, land, home, loneliness, America, country, literature, society, liberal, style and more.
You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
Put your good where it will do the most!
A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.
Bullshit reigns.
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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(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.
If you label it this, then it can't be that.
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.
It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!
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.
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.
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.
They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds" "But once you've been through that door, you can't just keep going through it over and over again...
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
The road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom
We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening.
The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.
Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.
