And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Come to us Father, in the watches of the night. Come to us as you always came, bringing to us the invincible… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart…To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“They clung together in that bright moment of wonder, there on the magic island, where the world was quiet, believing all they… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“To lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And victory, joy, wild hope, and swelling certitude and tenderness surged through the conduits of our blood as we heard that drunken… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940): Some things will never change. Some things… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“At these repeated signs of decadence in a society which had once been the object of his envy and his highest ambition, Webber's face… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“For four years he lived in Brooklyn, and four years in Brooklyn are a geologic age -- a single stratum of grey time. They… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“They clung together in that bright moment of wonder, there on the magic island, where the world was quiet, believing all they said. And… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
