Quotes by : Thomas Wolfe

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're....

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

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

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh,....

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life....

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death....

And his soul plunged downward, drowning in that deep pit: he felt that could never again escape from....