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44 Motivational Quotes By Tom Wolfe, A Wordsmith Whose Words Will Live On Forever

Famous As: American author
Born On: March 2, 1931
Died On: March 14, 2018
Born In: Richmond, Virginia, United States
Died At Age: 87

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.

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

Tom Wolfe
A cult is a religion with no political power.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Tom Wolfe
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

Tom Wolfe
Put your good where it will do the most!

Put your good where it will do the most!

Tom Wolfe
A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Tom Wolfe
Bullshit reigns.

Bullshit reigns.

Tom Wolfe
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

Tom Wolfe
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Tom Wolfe
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Tom Wolfe
(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.

(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.

Tom Wolfe
If you label it this, then it can't be that.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

Tom Wolfe
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.

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.

Tom Wolfe
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.

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.

Tom Wolfe
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Tom Wolfe
You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

Tom Wolfe
YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Wolfe
Dear Mother,
I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

Tom Wolfe
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!

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!

Tom Wolfe
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.

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.

Tom Wolfe
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.

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.

Tom Wolfe
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this:

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

Tom Wolfe
The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.

The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.

Tom Wolfe
They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds

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...

Tom Wolfe
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Tom Wolfe
The road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom

The road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom

Tom Wolfe
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.

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.

Tom Wolfe
The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.

The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.

Tom Wolfe
Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.

Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.

Tom Wolfe
Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.

Tom Wolfe