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| Tom Wolfe
A cult is a religion with no political power. A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. 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. The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. 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. 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. There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. To a man of sixty... one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, the people who have attended to his body for decades, begin retiring on him... or dying on him... or both. 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. What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? |
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