And who shall say — whatever disenchantment follows — that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold?

Thomas Wolfe

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Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and...

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