Tom Wolfe - American Quotes

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How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements...How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles.

Tom Wolfe

We are now in the Me Decade—seeing the upward roll of…the third great religious wave in American history…and this one has the mightiest, holiest roll of all, the beat that goes…Me…Me…Me…Me.

Tom Wolfe

As hand-to-hand combat has gradually disappeared from our civilization, even in wartime... Americans have turned to the automobile to satisfy their love of direct aggression.

Tom Wolfe

At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre unpredictable, hog-stomping country of ours and reclaim its literary property.

Tom Wolfe