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• Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
  -- Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities" ======================================================================= He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him....
• Who in the name of God would bring a half-eaten eight-ounce jar of Hellman's mayonnaise to a public meeting?
  -- Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanitie...
• Yale is terrific for anything you wanna do, so long as it doesn't involve people with sneakers, guns, dope, lust, or sloth.
  -- Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanitie...
• Propaganda - A socially correct goose!
• The first ten million years were the worst.
• A cult is a religion with no political power. -- Tom Wolfe
• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. -- Tom Wolfe
• Don't confuse the water with the pump. -- Tom Wolfe
• We are always acting on what has just finished happening.
  It happened at least one-thirtieth of a second ago....