Shoulders Recoiled Quote by Thomas Wolfe

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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