Tom Wolfe
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"Thomas Kennerly" ""Tom"" "Wolfe, Jr." is an American author and journalist, best known for his association and influence over the New Journalism literary movement in which literary techniques are used in Objectivity (journalism)/objective, even-handed journalism. Beginning his career as a reporter, he soon became one of the most culturally significant figures of the sixties after the publication of books such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. His first novel entitled The Bonfire of the Vanities, released in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and was a great commercial success.

He is also known, in recent years, for his spats and public disputes with other writers, including John Updike, Norman Mailer, and John Irving.

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There hasn't been any good news for the president. We've had more exposure to high level corruption.

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

Not "Seeing is Believing," you ninny, but "Believing is Seeing." For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.

The only real possession you'll ever have is your character.

Not only do we service veterans, we also play cupid.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions - Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

If it wasn't for the ladies, we wouldn't be here, ... That's like any organization.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

People say you have to be a member before you're serviced. No, you do not.

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

It taught me a lesson, ... You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

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.

We went into the hole by a significant amount, ... We're trying to repave the road so to speak.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

We had problems here a short time ago with our funds. We're trying to get that taken care of.

The bonfire of the vanities.