“Anyway, I don’t want to live in New York. I want — Tom Wolfe
“Anyway, I don’t want to live in New York. I want some place more like where we used to live in New Jersey. I don’t like living here. There aren’t any trees.”
More by Tom Wolfe
All the critics in the world may say it’s good but a man’s own mother will know.
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Duh poor guy! . . . Maybe he’s found out by now dat he’ll neveh live long enough to know duh whole of Brooklyn. It’d take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t’roo an’ t’roo. An’ even den, yuh wouldn’t know it all.
Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
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Idleness was a sin not against the self or against God but against Mammon and Pierce & Pierce.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epicteto