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Tom Wolfe

Birthname

AKA: Tom Wolfe

Birthday: March 2, 1931

Educated At: Washington And Lee University, Yale University

Nationality: American, United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Author, Essayist, Non-fiction Writer, Novelist

Religion: Atheism

Total quotes: 3

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”

— Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tagged: Life Is Movie, Life, This Is Life, Perfect Quotes About Life, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“You’re not going to find many traditional judges who can lead you any longer, since they now wander helplessly, bemused by the willful ignorance of that bizarre twentieth-century organism, the intellectual. You’re going to have to make the crucial judgments yourselves.”

— Tom Wolfe, Way More than Luck

Tagged: Death of God, Death of The Author

“If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of 'intellectual.' No mental activity is required. It is a rule, to which there has never been an exception, that when an actor or a television performer rises up to the microphone at one of these awards ceremonies and expresses moral indignation over something, he illustrates Marshall McLuhan's dictum that 'moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity.'”

— Tom Wolfe, Commencement Address to the Boston University Class of 2000

Tagged: Morality, The New Church Ladies, Intellectualism

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