Frases de Thomas Wolfe
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Thomas Clayton Wolfe foi um importante romancista estadunidense do início do século XX.Thomas escreveu quatro longos romances, além de vários contos, trabalhos dramatúrgicos e novelas. É conhecido por misturar prosa extremamente original, poética, musical e impressionista com a escrita autobiográfica. Seus livros, escritos e publicados dos anos 20 aos anos 90, refletem vividamente sobre a cultura americana e demais temas do período, embora filtrados pela perspectiva sensível, sofisticada e super-analítica de Thomas. Ele se tornou muito famoso em vida.Depois da morte de Wolfe, seu principal contemporâneo, William Faulkner, disse que Thomas poderia ter sido o melhor talento de sua geração. A influência de Wolfe estende-se aos escritos do famoso autor beat Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury e Philip Roth, entre outros. Ele continua a ser um dos mais importantes autores na literatura americana, pois foi um dos primeiros mestres de ficção autobiográfica. Ele é considerado o escritor mais famoso da Carolina do Norte. Wikipedia

✵ 3. Outubro 1900 – 15. Setembro 1938

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Thomas Wolfe frases e citações

“No sono nós estamos todos sozinhos e nus, no Sono nós estamos unidos no coração da noite e da escuridão, e nós somos estranhos e bonitos acordados; para nós a escuridão está morrendo e nós não conhecemos morte alguma.”

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying in the darkness, and we know no death, there is no death, there is no life
The face of a nation: poetical passages from the writings of Thomas Wolfe - página 67, Thomas Wolfe - C. Scribner's Sons, 1939 - 321 páginas

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“Cometa seus erros, arrisque-se, pareça bobo, mas continue em frente. Nunca fique parado.”

Thomas Wolfe: Frases em inglês

“And the eternal paradox of it is that if a man is to know the triumphant labor of creation, he must for long periods resign himself to loneliness, and suffer loneliness to rob him of the health, the confidence, the belief and joy which are essential to creative work.”

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The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

“By Christmas, with fair luck, he might be eligible for service in khaki: by Spring, if God was good, all the proud privileges of trench-lice, mustard gas, spattered brains, punctured lungs, ripped guts, asphyxiation, mud and gangrene, might be his.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Eugene Gant contemplating entering the service in World War I
Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 434

“In New York the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belong to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Of Time and the River

Of Time and the River (1935)

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

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

Book III, Ch. 26: The Wounded Faun
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“They belonged to that futile, desolate, and forsaken horde who felt that all will be well with their lives, that all the power they lack themselves will be supplied, and all the anguish, fury, and unrest, the confusion and the dark damnation of man's soul can magically be healed if only they eat bran for breakfast.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Of Time and the River

Of Time and the River (1935)

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

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 10

“Who owns the earth? Did we want the earth that we should wander on it? Did we need the earth that we were never still upon it? Whoever needs the earth shall have the earth: he shall be still upon it, he shall rest within a little place, he shall dwell in one small room for ever.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Of Time and the River

Book 1. This excerpt is also cited in a short story "Forever and the Earth" (1950) by Ray Bradbury.
Of Time and the River (1935)

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

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 267

“Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 160

“And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 157

“To believe that new monsters will arise as vicious as the old, to believe that the great Pandora's Box of human frailty, once opened, will never show a diminution of its ugly swarm, is to help, by just that much, to make it so forever.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

Book VII, Ch. 47: Ecclesiasticus
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

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Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time -- back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

Book VI, Ch. 44: The Way of No Return
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“So, then, to every man his chance—to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity—to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him — this, seeker, is the promise of America.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

Book IV, Ch. 31: The Promise of America
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

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

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

Book IV, Ch. 31: The Promise of America
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“What Christ is saying always, what he never swerves from saying, what he says a thousand times and in a thousand different ways, but always with a central unity of belief, is this: "I am my Father’s son, and you are my brothers." And the unity that binds us all together, that makes this earth a family, and all men brothers and the sons of God, is love.”

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The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

“Nacreous pearl light swam faintly about the hem of the lilac darkness; the edges of light and darkness were stitched upon the hills. Morning moved like a pearl-gray tide across the fields and up the hillflanks, flowing rapidly down into the soluble dark.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 142

“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro Look Homeward, Angel

Fonte: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 62

“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon our ears as the manswarm passes us in the streets -- we find, I think, that they are all suffering from the same thing. The final cause of their complaint is loneliness.”

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The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

“Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox in America--that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, this is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.”

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

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

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

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Thomas Wolfe livro You Can't Go Home Again

Book II, Ch. 21: Love is Not Enough
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)