"Only the dead know Brooklyn."
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Thomas Wolfe
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49 Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field…
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able…
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness,…
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only…
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
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...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say…
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is…
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What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was…
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More Brooklyn Quotes
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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little…
— David Byrne
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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it?…
— Julian Casablancas
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.
— Nicki Minaj
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Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He…
— Sydney Schanberg
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Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down
— Unknown Author
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My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to…
— Herbie Mann
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I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
— David Beckham
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We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.
— David Beckham
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