#ma

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him. ↗

— Charles Wolfe

#cloak #him #his #lay #like

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#attainable #certainly #closure #contributes #doubt

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#anyone #best #chooses #does #experience

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

#failed #few #few men #half #know

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. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#east #east side #else #groups #had

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #fooling #forever #function #god

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#amazing #attitude #change #example #freedom

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#dissatisfied #does #feel #goad #hard