The bonfire of the vanities. (Title of novel, 1987)
Tom Wolfe quote 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 quote The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe quote 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 quote 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.
Tom Wolfe quote Pornography was the great vice of the Seventies; plutography - the graphic depiction of the acts of the rich - the the great vice of the Eighties.
Tom Wolfe quote Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Tom Wolfe quote Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom Wolfe quote Biography
American writer, 1931-
