Thomas Wolfe Quotes

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Thomas Wolfe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1900 - September 15, 1938

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It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.

John Gurdon

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When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did.

Matthew Desmond

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The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Stella Adler

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I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

Rose McGowan

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When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Michael Shermer

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Judith Tarr

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To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

Chris Parnell

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We kind of deny the stages of life.

Chuck Palahniuk

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It's normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It's normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump's cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.

Bret Stephens

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I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'

Twyla Tharp

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I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.

Norman Finkelstein

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