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Tom Wolfe
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Quotes by Tom Wolfe
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He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector.
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Adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.
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One belongs to New York instantly; one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
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He adopted a role called "being a father" so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector.
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It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference.
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There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.
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The seven men pressed on. They were tired of the designation of “capsule” for the Mercury vehicle. The term as much as declared that the man inside was not a pilot but an experimental animal in a pod. Gradually, everybody began trying to work the term “spacecraft” into NASA publications and syllabuses. Next.
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Then he put that one down behind a framed sepia-tone picture of a baseball player named Cecil Travis and picked up another one and tilted it back to his lips.
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What makes you think you can come before the bench waving the banner of community pressure? The law is not a creature of the few or of the many.
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