By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip … - Tom Wolfe

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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.

Tom Wolfe

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.

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

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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.

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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

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Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

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

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Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

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Thomas Merton

The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.

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Sho Baraka

I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.

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Betty White

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

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