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Look Homeward, Angel

The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man’s coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. A legendary author on par with William Faulkner an

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“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Hypocrisy, Pride, Hatred, mean, Truth

“I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what…”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Thought, Existence, Philosophical

“Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: fiction, fact, purpose

“He knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness, lost, Loneliness, Stranger

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: moment, Time

“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Mountains, Masters, Reality, Unity, Eternal Change

“Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Chance, Reality, impact

“And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Fixity, Change, Life, Observe

“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: Hell, Dream, Death

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

— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com

Tagged: sickness, Mind and Body, Mind Over Matter