Tag: Quote of the Day

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Tom Wolfe

This goes for everything in art, music, cinema and literature too, all a sham.

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

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

Tom Wolfe

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain’s performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can’t control, namely, speech.

Tom Wolfe

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

Tom Wolfe

This is an old joke.  But the lines have blurred so much it’s a little hard to see which way it cuts best these days.

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

Tom Wolfe