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Thomas Clayton Wolfe – powieściopisarz amerykański.

✵ 3. Październik 1900 – 15. Wrzesień 1938
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„Samotność… to zasadniczy i nieunikniony aspekt ludzkiej egzystencji.”

Thomas Wolfe

Źródło: Timothy Perry, Thomas Wolfe [w:] 501 wielkich pisarzy pod red. Juliana Patricka, wyd. MWK, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 9788361095333, s. 358, tłum. Hanna Pawlikowska-Gannon, Julita Degórska, Małgorzata Koenig

Thomas Wolfe: Cytaty po angielsku

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

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Thomas Wolfe

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

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Źródło: You Can't Go Home Again

“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”

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Thomas Wolfe

“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Look Homeward, Angel

Źródło: Look Homeward, Angel

“O lost,
And by the wind grieved,
Ghost,
Come back again.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Look Homeward, Angel

Źródło: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 3
Kontekst: A stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Źródło: You Can't Go Home Again

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

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Thomas Wolfe

“Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth. I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.”

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Thomas Wolfe

“You can't go home again”

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Thomas Wolfe

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

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Thomas Wolfe

The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”

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Thomas Wolfe

“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Look Homeward, Angel

Źródło: Look Homeward, Angel

“It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet… the whole world lies between.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Źródło: You Can't Go Home Again

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”

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Thomas Wolfe

Źródło: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

“Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Źródło: You Can't Go Home Again

“I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.”

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Thomas Wolfe

“… he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Look Homeward, Angel

Źródło: Look Homeward, Angel

“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Look Homeward, Angel

Źródło: Look Homeward, Angel

“Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Źródło: You Can't Go Home Again

“To a future world,— inhabited, no doubt, by a less acute and understanding race of men, — all this may seem a trifle strange. If so, that will be because the world of the future will have forgotten what it was like to live in 1929.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Book II, Ch. 14: Zero Hour
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“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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Thomas Wolfe książka Of Time and the River

Book 2, chapter 14, p. 155
Of Time and the River (1935)

“Play us a tune on an unbroken spinet, and let the bells ring, let the bells ring! Play music now: play us a tune on an unbroken spinet. Do not make echoes of forgotten time, do not strike music from old broken keys, do not make ghosts with faded tinklings on the yellowed board; but play us a tune on an unbroken spinet, play lively music when the instrument was new, let us see Mozart playing in the parlor, and let us hear the sound of the ladies' voices. But more than that; waken the turmoil of forgotten streets, let us hear their sounds again unmuted, and unchanged by time, throw the light of Wednesday morning on the Third Crusade, and let us see Athens on an average day.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Of Time and the River

Of Time and the River (1935)

“His own power and magic — overwhelmed him for a moment with a feeling of the purest, highest, and most glorious happiness that life can yield — the happiness that is at once the most selfish and the most selfless — the happiness of the artist when he sees that his work has been found good, has for itself a place of honour, glory, and proud esteem in the hearts of men, and has wrought upon their lives the spell of its enchantment. At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being — the reward he seeks — the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka Of Time and the River

Of Time and the River (1935)

“And Christ himself, who preached the life of love, was yet as lonely as any man that ever lived. Yet I could not say that he was mistaken because he preached the life of love and fellowship, and lived and died in loneliness; nor would I dare assert his way was wrong because a billion men have since professed his way and never followed it.”

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Thomas Wolfe

The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

“Now they saw it — its newness, its raw crudeness, and its strength — and turned their shuddering eyes away. "Give us back our well-worn husk," they said, "where we were so snug and comfortable." And then they tried word magic. "Conditions are fundamentally sound," they said — by which they meant to reassure themselves that nothing now was really changed, that things were as they always had been, and as they always would be, forever and ever, amen. But they were wrong. They did not know that you can't go home again. America had come to the end of something and to the beginning of something else. But no one knew what that something else would be and out of the change and uncertainly and the wrongness of the leaders grew fear and desperation and before long hunger stalked the streets. Through it all there was still only one certainty, though no one saw it yet. America was still America, and whatever new thing came of it would be American.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Book III: An End and a Beginning
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me — and I think for all of us — not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream. I think the life which we have fashioned in America, and which has fashioned us — the forms we made, the cells that grew, the honeycomb that was created — was self-destructive in its nature, and must be destroyed. I think these forms are dying, and must die, just as I know that America and the people in it are deathless, undiscovered, and immortal, and must live.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Book VII, Ch. 48: Credo
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”

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Thomas Wolfe

The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

“Few buildings are vast enough to hold the sound of time, and now it seemed to George that there was a superb fitness in the fact that the one which held it better than all others should be a railroad station. For here, as nowhere else on earth, men were brought together for a moment at the beginning or end of their innumerable journeys, here one saw their greetings and farewells, here, in a single instant, one got the entire picture of the human destiny. Men came and went, they passed and vanished, and all were moving through the moments of their lives to death, all made small tickings in the sound of time--but the voice of time remained aloof and unperturbed, a drowsy and eternal murmur below the immense and distant roof.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Book I, Ch. 5: The Hidden Terror
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“I think the true discovery of America is before us. I think the true fulfillment of our spirit, of our people, of our mighty and immortal land, is yet to come. I think the true discovery of our own democracy is still before us. And I think that all these things are certain as the morning, as inevitable as noon. I think I speak for most men living when I say that our America is Here, is Now, and beckons on before us, and that this glorious assurance is not only our living hope, but our dream to be accomplished.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Book VII, Ch. 48: Credo
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“I think the enemy is here before us, too. But I think we know the forms and faces of the enemy, and in the knowledge that we know him, and shall meet him, and eventually must conquer him is also our living hope. I think the enemy is here before us with a thousand faces, but I think we know that all his faces wear one mask. I think the enemy is single selfishness and compulsive greed. I think the enemy is blind, but has the brutal power of his blind grab. I do not think the enemy was born yesterday, or that he grew to manhood forty years ago, or that he suffered sickness and collapse in 1929, or that we began without the enemy, and that our vision faltered, that we lost the way, and suddenly were in his camp. I think the enemy is old as Time, and evil as Hell, and that he has been here with us from the beginning. I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land. I think he took our people and enslaved them, that he polluted the fountains of our life, took unto himself the rarest treasures of our own possession, took our bread and left us with a crust, and, not content, for the nature of the enemy is insatiate--tried finally to take from us the crust.”

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Thomas Wolfe książka You Can't Go Home Again

Book VII, Ch. 48: Credo
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

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