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'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

~Tom Wolfe

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I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

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Nonfiction is never going to die.

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The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

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I'm a great believer in outlines.

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I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

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That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 2nd, 1931

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