Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is… — 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
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It was the beginning of that dark time of blood, and crime, and terror which the years of prohibition brought and which… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Out of the nameless and unfathomed weavings of billion-footed life, out of the dark abyss of time and duty, blind chance had… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 like a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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