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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

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #ennobled #exertions #how #obtained

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

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#communicate #everything #first #first of all #joy

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #conservative #liberal #who

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#find #forget #forgive #grudge #harbor

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

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#frankly #go #i #painting #see

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

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#being #book #first #found #i