American - Journalist | March 2, 1931 -
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.
Tom Wolfe
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I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.
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In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.
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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.
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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
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To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.
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Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.
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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
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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.
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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
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