The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded . . .Thomas Wolfe
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
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Thomas Wolfe
Men will often say they have 'found themselves' when they have really been worn down into a groove by the brutal and compulsive force of circumstance.
Thomas Wolfe
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