232 Quotes by 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.

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

The first newspaper I worked on was the ‘Springfield Union’ in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no’s.

She was wearing a skirt and a big-shouldered jacket of a royal blue that was fashionable in France, a blue-and-white-striped silk blouse, and electric-blue lizard pumps with white calf caps on the toes.

Huxley became such an ardent Darwinist not because he believed in Darwin’s theory of natural selection – he never did – but because Darwin was obviously an atheist, just as he was. No.

The difference in Darwin’s case was that he put together his story in an increasingly rational age. It.

They presumed a knowledge and an intimacy they did not have and had no right to. Some.

If you label it this, then it can’t be that.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths – anybody’s myths. But it was created for a rational age.