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I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

~Tom Wolfe

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There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

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American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

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Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

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To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

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In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

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I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.

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People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

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I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 2nd, 1931

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