Top 120 Tom Wolfe Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 3 of 3

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Cassady is a monologuist, only he doesn’t seem to care whether anyone is listening or not. He just goes off on the monologue, by himself if necessary, although anyone is welcome aboard. He will answer all questions, although not exactly in that order, because we can’t stop here, next rest area 40 miles, you understand, spinning off memories, metaphors, literary, Oriental, hip allusions, all punctuated by the unlikely expression, ’you understand -.”

101. “Cassady is a monologuist, only he doesn’t seem to care whether anyone is listening or not. He just goes off on the monologue, by himself if necessary, although anyone is welcome aboard. He will answer all questions, although not exactly in that order, because we can’t stop here, next rest area 40 miles, you understand, spinning off memories, metaphors, literary, Oriental, hip allusions, all punctuated by the unlikely expression, ’you understand -.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “The Science of Language will yet enable us to withstand the extreme theories of evolutionists and to draw a hard and fast line between man and brute.”

102. “The Science of Language will yet enable us to withstand the extreme theories of evolutionists and to draw a hard and fast line between man and brute.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Nonfiction is never going to die.”

103. “Nonfiction is never going to die.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “The theory and the atheistic bias that came with it spread quickly to Germany, Italy, Spain, and to self-professed intellectual elites in the United States, even.”

104. “The theory and the atheistic bias that came with it spread quickly to Germany, Italy, Spain, and to self-professed intellectual elites in the United States, even.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “By the time he reached the front door, the truth had hit him. Through stupidity, incompetence, and funk he had now managed to lose his one last hope. Oh, Master of the Universe.”

105. “By the time he reached the front door, the truth had hit him. Through stupidity, incompetence, and funk he had now managed to lose his one last hope. Oh, Master of the Universe.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “The Avalon even had it down to details like the strobes and sections of the floor where you could play with Day-Glo paint under black light.”

106. “The Avalon even had it down to details like the strobes and sections of the floor where you could play with Day-Glo paint under black light.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “This was safe enough – the shape didn’t move, at least – but it could do terrible thing to, let us say, the gyroscope of the soul.”

107. “This was safe enough – the shape didn’t move, at least – but it could do terrible thing to, let us say, the gyroscope of the soul.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “In the 1920s and 1930s they hit upon the bright idea of co-opting genetics and treating it as one of the Theory of Evolution’s components. A.”

108. “In the 1920s and 1930s they hit upon the bright idea of co-opting genetics and treating it as one of the Theory of Evolution’s components. A.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “The insomnia factory was open for the day, heading toward peak production.”

109. “The insomnia factory was open for the day, heading toward peak production.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “To say that animals evolved into man is like saying that Carrara marble evolved into Michelangelo’s David. Speech is what man pays homage to in every moment he can imagine.”

110. “To say that animals evolved into man is like saying that Carrara marble evolved into Michelangelo’s David. Speech is what man pays homage to in every moment he can imagine.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Only such a power, “a new power of definite character,” can account for “ever-advancing” man.53 Whatever that power is, it is infinitely more important than mere natural selection.”

111. “Only such a power, “a new power of definite character,” can account for “ever-advancing” man.53 Whatever that power is, it is infinitely more important than mere natural selection.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Later Kesey comes in and happens to say in the course of something – “Cassady doesn’t have to think any more” – then he walks away. It is as if for some reason he is furnishing Norman with part of the puzzle.”

112. “Later Kesey comes in and happens to say in the course of something – “Cassady doesn’t have to think any more” – then he walks away. It is as if for some reason he is furnishing Norman with part of the puzzle.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Intellectuals around San Francisco, particularly at Berkeley, at the University of California, were beginning to romanticize about the Angels in terms of “alienation” and “a generation in revolt,” that kind of thing.”

113. “Intellectuals around San Francisco, particularly at Berkeley, at the University of California, were beginning to romanticize about the Angels in terms of “alienation” and “a generation in revolt,” that kind of thing.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Martha nodded to indicate she was not dying. She tried to shrink. If her rectangle had had a drain in it, she would have gladly swirled down it and disappeared.”

114. “Martha nodded to indicate she was not dying. She tried to shrink. If her rectangle had had a drain in it, she would have gladly swirled down it and disappeared.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “After he came out of it, he could see that a lot of it was junk.”

115. “After he came out of it, he could see that a lot of it was junk.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Every real leader knew that the occasional outburst of unexplained anger was good...”

116. “Every real leader knew that the occasional outburst of unexplained anger was good...”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Kesey was referred to as a kind of “hipster Christ,” “a modern mystic,” after the model of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. As.”

117. “Kesey was referred to as a kind of “hipster Christ,” “a modern mystic,” after the model of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. As.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Some of them had terrible bummers – bummer was the Angels’ term for a bad trip on a motorcycle and very quickly it became the hip world’s term for a bad trip on LSD.”

118. “Some of them had terrible bummers – bummer was the Angels’ term for a bad trip on a motorcycle and very quickly it became the hip world’s term for a bad trip on LSD.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “You do what you have to do, and I will do what I have to do, which is live and die like a man.”

119. “You do what you have to do, and I will do what I have to do, which is live and die like a man.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Oh Mario, and Dylan, and Joan Baez, oh Free Speech and Anti-Vietnam – who in his right mind would have ever dreamed it could come to this in twelve months – abandoned to the supermarket and the breezeway scions – a bunch of fraternity men in Mustangs – and it is, unbelievably, all as the provocateur Kesey has prophesied it, droning.”

120. “Oh Mario, and Dylan, and Joan Baez, oh Free Speech and Anti-Vietnam – who in his right mind would have ever dreamed it could come to this in twelve months – abandoned to the supermarket and the breezeway scions – a bunch of fraternity men in Mustangs – and it is, unbelievably, all as the provocateur Kesey has prophesied it, droning.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Royal! What a mockery it was of himself, a throbbing lump of flesh and fear cowering in bed in the dead of the night!”

121. “Royal! What a mockery it was of himself, a throbbing lump of flesh and fear cowering in bed in the dead of the night!”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Five years ago was before Walkman earphones. They can’t imagine that.”

122. “Five years ago was before Walkman earphones. They can’t imagine that.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “Everyone is picking up on the most minute incidents as if they are metaphors for life itself. Everybody’s life becomes more fabulous, every minute, than the most fabulous book.”

123. “Everyone is picking up on the most minute incidents as if they are metaphors for life itself. Everybody’s life becomes more fabulous, every minute, than the most fabulous book.”

Tom Wolfe Quote: “The pterodactyl and the brontosaurus were locked in mortal combat on the cliff over the Lost Continent.”

124. “The pterodactyl and the brontosaurus were locked in mortal combat on the cliff over the Lost Continent.”

Quotes About Stories

Quotes About Stories

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

PREV 1 2 3 NEXT

Quotes About Stories

Quotes About Stories

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 120 free pictures with Tom Wolfe Quotes.

All of the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.