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Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 1938)


American short story writer and novelist best known for his novels, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River and You Can't Go Home Again.
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Thomas Wolfe
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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