Thomas Wolfe Quotes

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• Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
• The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
• One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
• Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
• Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
• Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to…
• 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 uses…
• So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right…
• Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

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