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They say the fighters in the ring revel in violence. They say the wolf inside them is always looking for a release. Even on nights like tonight when the moon is not full and they look like men. And don’t they deserve violence
Lauren Palphreyman • The Wolf King
Before leaving, Wolfe scrounged for a pencil, then scribbled on the wall of the vestibule: THOMAS WOLFE LIVED HERE.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Wolfe had been an influential advocate in the 1970s
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
The city fascinated Wolfe, and when he was not working, he enjoyed nothing more than walking through every part of town with his editor.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
... See moreA biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.