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The New York Times bestseller list only has four categories. There ought to be a fifth category for autobiography. Or perhaps we should call it handicapped nonfiction.Tom Wolfe, quoted in Susan Salter Reynolds, 'The Truth About Memoirs,' The Los Angeles Times (Jan. 13, 2006)

is that which Americans have turned to to satisfy their love of direct aggression as hand-to-hand combat has gradually disappeared from our civilization.

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

is a liberal who's been mugged, just as a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. Tom Wolfe

is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

is something mythical and infinitely important: a protector, who keeps a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up of signs.

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

is a conservative who's been arrested, just as a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

is a city one belongs to instantly... as much in five minutes as in five years.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

Your self is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

is that state in which we lie all naked and alone, united at the heart of night and darkness. In sleep, we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep... for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. (Tom Wolfe)

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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