Tom Wolfe - Day Quotes

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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Tom Wolfe

I find that memory decay is very rapid. Even going to sleep and waking up the next day, there's an awful lot that simply doesn't come back. At least it doesn't come back accurately.

Tom Wolfe

I use a typewriter. My wife gave me a word processor two Christmases ago that still stares at me accusingly from a desk in my office. One day I am going to be compelled to learn how to use it.

Tom Wolfe

You go to bed every night thinking that you've written the most brilliant passage ever done, which somehow the next day you realize is sheer drivel.

Tom Wolfe

The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even—ultimately, God willing, one day—that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men's eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.

Tom Wolfe