Tom Wolfe Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

  Tom Wolfe

  Time, Aeneas, Age

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.46, Macmillan

• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, America, People

  Tom Wolfe (2010). “Hooking Up”, p.1929, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

  Tom Wolfe

  Thinking, Greek, Age

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