{"author":"Tom Wolfe","author_id":"Tom+Wolfe","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous parts of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world. Primitive man once experienced the rich and sparkling flood of the senses fully. Children experience it for a few months-until 'normal' training, conditioning, close the doors on this other world, usually for good. Somehow, the drugs opened these ancient doors. And through them modern man may at last go, and rediscover his divine birthright...","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["acid","drugs","lsd","psychedelics","spiritual","spiritual-growth","tripping"],"id":16877,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"Nerds... The 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["giving","face","thanks "],"id":29239,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["life","man","artist "],"id":29899,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["change","time","freedom "],"id":30950,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["time","good","television "],"id":54693,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["life","myself","loneliness "],"id":54996,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"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. ","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["american","train","people "],"id":69528,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["1980s","buildings","density","dreams","island","manhattan","new-york","new-york-city","paris","power","rome","skyscrapers","towers","victor"],"id":87373,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold with thangs like 'at.' And they'll respect you for that.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["identity","respect"],"id":87776,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["life","internet","want "],"id":109742,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}