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- Birth nameThomas Clayton Wolfe
- Height6′ 6½″ (1.99 m)
- Thomas Wolfe was born on October 3, 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer, known for Camera Three (1954), Of Time and the River (1953) and Herrenhaus (1966). He died on September 15, 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- 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.
- His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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