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Thomas Wolfe
American
Novelist
About the author
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#Man
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Work
#Press
#Artist
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Forget
#Reason
#Writer
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Success
#Money
#Publicity
#Compliments
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Publishing
#Business
#Advertising
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#America
#Paradox
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Years
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Mind
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Experience
#Loneliness
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Feeling
#Desire
#Romantic
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 the darkness and we know no death.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Death
#Heart
#Darkness
#Night
#United
#Lie
#Sleep
#Dying
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.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Men
#Satisfaction
#Talent
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.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Miracles
#Country
#America
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.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Home
#Earth
#Old
#Voice
#Sea
#October
#Hounds
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Death
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe,
American
Novelist
#Culture
#Beliefs