Thomas Wolfe Quotes

You can't go home again.

reunion

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

One belongs to New York instantly.  One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

New York City

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

artists

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

cooking

Knowledge is a potent and subtle distillation of experience, a rare liquor, and it belongs to the person who has the power to see, think, feel, taste, smell, and observe for himself, and who has hunger for it.

knowledge

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 has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men have ever know.

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 has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

talent