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Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe föddes den 3 oktober 1900 och dog den 15 september 1938 - US writer
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You can't go home again

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 the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

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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

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence

The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years

America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time

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