Thomas Wolfe Quotes

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

You Can?t Go Home Again. - Thomas Wolfe

What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? - Thomas Wolfe

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. - Thomas Wolfe

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. - Thomas Wolfe

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

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. - Thomas Wolfe

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

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

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. - Thomas Wolfe

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