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A cult is a religion with no political power.

Thomas Wolfe

Cult
2

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Thomas Wolfe

Liberals
3

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

Culture
4

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Thomas Wolfe

Death and Dying
5

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half 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.

Thomas Wolfe

Success
6

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

Thomas Wolfe

Life and Living
7

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Thomas Wolfe

Leaders and Leadership
8

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Thomas Wolfe

Architecture
9

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Thomas Wolfe

Army and Navy
10

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

Critics and Criticism
11

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

Thomas Wolfe

Cities and City Life
12

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

Bohemia
13

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

Arts and Artists
14

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

Books and Reading
15

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Thomas Wolfe

Loneliness
16

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

Spirit and Spirituality
17

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

Cooking
18

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

Thomas Wolfe

Arts and Artists
19

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

Time and Time Management

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half 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.

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

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

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.

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

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.

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

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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.

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

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

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.