Quote by Tom Wolfe
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead

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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The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and its an example of freedom from religion. – Tom Wolfe

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