"...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which……" — Thomas Wolfe
"...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 home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again"
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49 Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe has 49 quotes on this site.
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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 Ancestral Quotes
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The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness…
— Unknown Author
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There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all…
— Olaus Murie
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Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral…
— Daniel Gordis
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from…
— Ana Mendieta
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
— V.S. Naipaul
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in…
— Carl Jung
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge…
— Petrarch
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience…
— Unknown Author
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
— Ross Macdonald
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to…
— Ernst Mayr
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The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
— Austin Osman Spare
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Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral…
— Kathy Reichs
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