"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."
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Tom Wolfe, born on March 2, 1930, in Richmond, Virginia, was a pioneering American author and journalist best known for his distinctive narrative style that blended fiction and non-fiction. A leading voice in the New Journalism movement, Wolfe's works, such as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "Bonfire of the Vanities," captured the complexities of American culture and society during the latter half of the 20th century. His keen observations and vibrant prose left a lasting legacy, influencing generations of writers and readers alike until his passing in 2018.
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"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"Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face."
Tom Wolfe"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."
Tom Wolfe"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."
Tom Wolfe"By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I."
Tom Wolfe"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