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Tom Wolfe

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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.


— Tom Wolfe


#chic #heart #only #part #radical

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.


— Tom Wolfe


#really #reporters #researchers #television

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


— Tom Wolfe


#internet #just #meaning #mostly #passing

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.


— Tom Wolfe


#amazing #attitude #change #example #freedom

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


#fact #feature #get #gravitated #i

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.


— Tom Wolfe


#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.


— Tom Wolfe


#beauty #eternity #glory #hungry #hungry man

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.


— Tom Wolfe


#ago #always #finished #happened #happening

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


— Tom Wolfe


#american history #decade #great #history #me

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.


— Tom Wolfe


#clothes #how #into #lining #much






About Tom Wolfe

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Did you know about Tom Wolfe?

Wolfe abandoned baseball and instead followed the example of his professor Marshall Fishwick by enrolling in Yale University's American Studies doctoral program. Among his models was William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair which described the society of 19th century England. The Post's city editor was "amazed that Wolfe preferred cityside to Capitol Hill the beat every reporter wanted.

Beginning his career as a reporter he soon became one of the most culturally significant figures of the sixties after the publication of books such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and his collections of articles and essays Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe Jr. His first novel The Bonfire of the Vanities released in 1987 was met with critical acclaim and was a great commercial success.

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