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
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
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
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
Tom Wolfe
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe
All Tom Wolfe Quotations
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Acting,
Ago,
Always,
Finished,
Happened,
Happening,
Just,
Know,
Least,
Movie,
Only,
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Present,
Second,
The Past,
Think
Definitions
Acting,
Ago,
Always,
Finished,
Happened,
Happening,
Just,
Know,
Least,
Movie,
Only,
Past,
Present,
Second,
Think
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