Thomas Wolfe Quotes


Making the world safe for hypocrisy. Thomas Wolfe Military 104
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. Thomas Wolfe Death 102
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Thomas Wolfe art 92
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe Success 81
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Thomas Wolfe Loneliness 81
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. Thomas Wolfe Uncategorized 80
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. Thomas Wolfe Criticism 79
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. Thomas Wolfe Liberalism 73
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. Thomas Wolfe Writing 69
You cant go home again Thomas Wolfe Home 63
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 America 62
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. Thomas Wolfe Art 60
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 Death 59
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Thomas Wolfe Cooking 58
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe America 56
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. Thomas Wolfe Life 51
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 Advertising 47
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Thomas Wolfe Reading 44
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe City 41
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 Home 40
I believe that we are lost here in America but I believe we shall be found. And this belief which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction is for meand I think for all of usnot only our own hope but Americas everlasting living dream. Thomas Wolfe America 37

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