"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."

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Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

Thomas Wolfe

#Strong Quotes #Men Quotes #Mad Quotes

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?”
“There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.”
“Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.”
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

Source : "The English Patient". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.”
“Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.”

Source : Bruce Feirstein, Lionel Trippett (1982). “Real Men Don't Eat Quiche”, New English Library
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.”

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