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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (born March 2, 1931) is an American author and journalist, best known for his association with and influence in stimulating the New Journalism literary movement, in which literary techniques are used extensively. He reduced traditional values of journalistic objectivity.

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

Beautiful, Mother, Worried, Write, Writing

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Forever, Stories, Journalism, Kind, God

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Forget, Forgiving, Never Forget, Scores, Settle, Waiting

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Philosophy, Political, Power, Religion, Religious

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.

Art, Fiction, Games, Knows, Public, Romantic Love

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

Denounced, Heaven, Heavens, Interested, People

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

Looked, Pages, People, Read, Thinking

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it. . . in this moment. . . this supreme moment. . . this Kairos.

Cause, Doors, Feeling, Feelings, Past, Perception

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

Chic, Heart, Society, Style, Tradition

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

Fool, Lie, Lying, May, Truth, Weak

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Believe, Important, Nonfiction, Half, Century, Literature

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Die, Dies, Nonfiction

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.

Avenue, Country, Loyalty, Parade, Years

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Waiting, Looks, Firsts, Backward, Wait, Milieu

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. . . that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

Children, Dad, Father, Grew, Sense, Sooner

Put your good where it will do the most!

Good

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.

Life, Loneliness, Being Alone, Rare, Peculiar

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor. " In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old. " Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

2000, America, People, Poor, Widespread, Years

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world. ' So I started working for newspapers.

Overwhelming, Overwhelming Urge, Real, Studies, Sufferer, World

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!

Country, Lets, Material, Mean, Running, Runs

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