You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe More Quotes by Thomas Wolfe More Quotes From Thomas Wolfe There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. Thomas Wolfe sight food love 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 cutting artist forever [T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations. Thomas Wolfe men philosophy reality Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. Thomas Wolfe texas time night My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back. Thomas Wolfe iron girl heart You can't go home again Thomas Wolfe loss home inspirational By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape. Thomas Wolfe healing children moving The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here? Thomas Wolfe self healing order Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Thomas Wolfe winning home time A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. Thomas Wolfe mad strong men And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold? Thomas Wolfe apples magic tree ...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges. Thomas Wolfe eye doe men Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. Thomas Wolfe being-alone lonely loneliness Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Thomas Wolfe art-and-culture culture art O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again. Thomas Wolfe ghost lost wind 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 heart beautiful lying I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it. Thomas Wolfe wells behinds genius 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 me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream. Thomas Wolfe dream believe thinking 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 pieces done writing 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 new-york time art
