Thomas Wolfe - The Web and the Rock (1937)

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

Thomas Wolfe

Knowledge is a potent and subtle distillation of experience, a rare liquor, and it belongs to the person who has the power to see, think, feel, taste, smell, and observe for himself, and who has hunger for it.

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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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If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

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There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous — and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

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