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Thomas Wolfe

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You can't go home again


— Thomas Wolfe


#inspirational #leaving #loss #return #inspirational

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.


— Thomas Wolfe


#change

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.


— Thomas Wolfe


#compliments #money #pinnacle #publicity #reached

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.


— Thomas Wolfe


#escape #escaping #feeling #life #prevent

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.


— Thomas Wolfe


#been #central #every #every man #experience

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


#country #fabulous #happen #miracles #only

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


#asleep #beautiful #darkness #death #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


#failed #few #few men #half #know

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


#book #business #good #hard #kind

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


#earth #fences #field #forsaken #hollow






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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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