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Thomas Wolfe

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


— Thomas Wolfe


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


— Thomas Wolfe


#most #sick #think #time

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


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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


#five #instantly #minutes #much #new

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


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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


#forget #reader #reads #reason #remember

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.


— Thomas Wolfe


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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.


— Thomas Wolfe


#certain #everything #lost #mad #man






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Did you know about Thomas Wolfe?

" Both in his 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech and original press conference announcement Sinclair Lewis the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature said of Wolfe "He may have a chance to be the greatest American writer. Afterward
Wolfe saw less than half of his work publiThomas Wolfed in his lifetime due to the amount of the material he left at his death. On the way he stopped at Purdue University and gave a lecture Writing and Living then spent two weeks traveling through 11 national parks in the West the only part of the country he had never visited before.

He is known for mixing highly original poetic rhapsodic and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. He remains one of the most important writers in modern American literature as he was one of the first masters of autobiographical fiction. He became very famous during his own lifetime.

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