Thomas Wolfe Quotes

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
• All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long…
• A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and…
• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
• America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen…
• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
• Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his…
• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and…
• ...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but…
• Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the…
• What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in…
• It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet...…
• The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know…
• Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in…
• Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth…
• ...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back…
• The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever…
• I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind…
• You can't go home again

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