"America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."

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Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

Thomas Wolfe

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“The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.”
“Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.”
“The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.”
“Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.”
“We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.”
“We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.”
“One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.”
“Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.”

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