"The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in……" — 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 absolute unity in the midst of eternal change."
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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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