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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern a

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. – Tom Wolfe

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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. – Tom Wolfe

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Las Vegas
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Tom Wolfe
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. – Tom Wolfe

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famous
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Tom Wolfe
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This is the artist, then, lifes hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beautys miser, glorys slave. – Tom Wolfe

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Beauty
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Tom Wolfe
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We believe that according the name investors to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic. – Warren Buffett

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Im probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. – Jamie Oliver

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Romantic

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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Romantic

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. – Edward Burns

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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. – Shirley Hazzard

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Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

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Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box. – German Proverb

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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. – Lester B. Pearson

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