"I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once."

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Source : Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.360, Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

#Thousand Quotes

“You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.”
“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.”

Source : "Nicky Whelan Talks MATADOR, Her Reaction to the Season 2 Pick-Up, Her Audition Process, Learning to Shoot a Gun, and Her Character’s Relationships". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2014.
“I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
“You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.”

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