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US  Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe föddes den 3 oktober 1900 och dog den 15 september 1938 - US writer
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 One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years

 Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement

 So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi

 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.

 The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

 The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

 The surest cure for vanity is loneliness

 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

 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

 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.

 There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

 We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

 You can't go home again

 A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

 A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.


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