Thomas Wolfe

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”

“That enfabled rock, that ship of life, that swarming, million-footed, tower-masted, sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.”

“Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”

“Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.”

“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 ha...”

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.”

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

“You can't go home again”

“Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedd...”

“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...”

“[F]or he had heard an inarticulate promise: he has been pierced by Spring, that sharp knife. And life unscales its rusty weathered pelt, and earth wells out in tender exhaustless strength, a...”

“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 ab...”

“36. Призракът на смъртта през април стр. 589 В задния двор на старата тухлена къща, където живееше Мънк, един от тези малки, оградени дворове на нюйоркските къщи — частица от размерената пло...”

“36. Призракът на смъртта през април стр. 589 В задния двор на старата тухлена къща, където живееше Мънк, един от тези малки, оградени дворове на нюйоркските къщи — частица от размерената пло...”

“49. Мрачен октомври стр. 743 Домогваме се до живота с тези словесни мрежи и капани, безумието ни расте с безсилието ни, опитваме се да запазим и задържим нещичко с цялата плодовита яловост н...”

“39 · Remorse His mind, now goaded by an intolerable desire to know her, see her, have and own her, to mine her life up bit by bit out of the depthless pit of time and the furious oblivion of...”

“34 · Glory Deferred I did not foresee you, Mrs. Jack—nothing in life has turned out the way I expected—but, like God, if you had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent you. 34....”

“9 · Home from the Mountain And above them the stormy wintry skies—sometimes a savage sky of wild, torn grey that came so low its scudding fringes whipped like rags of smoke around the mounta...”

“3 · Esther’s House Again, the world is full of people who think they know what they really do not know — other people have had their convictions and beliefs and feelings for them. 23. Домът...”

“29 · The Ring and the Book The whole passionate enigma of life, the living contradiction, the undemonstrable but overwhelming unity which comprises every antithesis by which men live and die...”