Tom Wolfe Quotes

This beach is verboten for people practically 50 years old. - Tom Wolfe

They are a very prominent name in the bromeliad business, and they were long before coming to the U.S. - Tom Wolfe

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. - Tom Wolfe

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

The term most people use to describe Lewis is patrician, and he does have that air. He's very much part of a social network. He does know a wide range of people in the upper orders. That's why I think he has a lot of fun with his left-leaning views. - Tom Wolfe

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. - Tom Wolfe

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

The New York Times bestseller list only has four categories. There ought to be a fifth category for autobiography. Or perhaps we should call it handicapped nonfiction. - Tom Wolfe

The bonfire of the vanities. - Tom Wolfe

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. - Tom Wolfe

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