Thomas Wolfe Short Quotes

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O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.

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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

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He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.

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The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.

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His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

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Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

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

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Suddenly New York blazes like a magnificent jewel in its fit setting of sea, and earth, and stars.

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This is the artist, then—life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

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The old church, with its sharp steeple, rotted slowly, decently, prosperously, like a good man's wife.

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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

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I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius — I know it too well to blush behind it.

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Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

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

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It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo. An' even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. Only the dead know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo.

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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 on all time.

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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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He was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

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It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South—so much in balance, in agreement—and yet... the whole world lies between.

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In New York the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belong to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.

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Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

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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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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

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In sleep we lie all naked and alone, in sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying in the darkness, and we know no death.

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

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