232 Quotes by Tom Wolfe

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    Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

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    Lances and plumes! I’m a knight! Come up and fight! Why hold back! Knights of the Right Stuff!

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    It got to be an American custom, like talk shows, Face the Nation, marriage counseling, marathon encounters, or zoning hearings.

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    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 -

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    The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to know who Christopher Marlowe was.

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    Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

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    It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go.

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