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The old church, with its sharp steeple, rotted slowly, decently, prosperously, like a good man's wife.

— Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

Go, seeker, if you will, throughout the land and you will find us burning in the night.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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

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