Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

—Thomas Wolfe

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About Thomas Wolfe

Portrait of Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. 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...

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

—Thomas Wolfe

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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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

—Jerry Seinfeld

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The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

—Henry J. Tillman

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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

—Marcus Brigstocke

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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

—Edward Abbey

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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

—Mary Ellen Kelly

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