The Afton River flows quietly

Jarrod 2022-04-20 09:02:53

You are not worthless, in primitive society, our ancestors sat around the fire at night, in the darkness where the fire could not light, the wolves howled, and then a man started talking, he would tell a story, so that everyone not so scared anymore. Who is not forever like a cage, who is not born alienated until death alone. Cutting off the branches above will not kill the roots of the underground tree. We can't be the person we aspire to be, we can only be ourselves. Injuries and rejections endure in poetry. Only grand concepts are worth writing about. Write the little things, the epics, the great books that make a great nation. About years, short stories. There are other ways to live, like loving your children and watching them grow up healthy; like raising a family, doing a meaningful job; doing your best to help others. Even though your tongue is eloquent, your words are eloquent, and your words are gorgeous, you still don't understand the meaning of life at all, for example, looking into another person's eyes and sympathizing with him. The Isle of Caliban / Baltimore Tobacco Road Death in the Afternoon Tender Time and River The sun rises The sun rises look homeward, angel, look home A farewell to arms A farewell to arms

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  • Jake 2022-03-29 08:01:02

    Has this movie gone wrong? Is it writing Perkins or Wolfe or their friendship? But I really like it, although the story is unclear, but the language of the shots is still very good. The actor is so good. Uncle Colin's tears really hit the heart of the heart. He was originally a steady and introverted character, but he would stamp his feet and dance and smash the glass when he was emotional. The suffocating supernatural character gives five stars

  • Mariela 2022-04-03 09:01:12

    Maybe everyone is Caliban, we think he's weird, but we don't understand him! And he only needs someone who understands him to appear...

Genius quotes

  • Thomas Wolfe: Who better to talk to? The man who created something immortal. More and more I trouble myself with that. "The legacy." Will anyone care about Thomas Wolfe in 100 years? Ten years? When I was young, I asked myself that question every day.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: I used to trouble myself like that every day. Now I ask myself, "Can I write one good sentence."

  • [last lines]

    Thomas Wolfe: [Max reading Tom's deathbed letter] Dear Max, I've got a hunch, and I wanted to write these words to you. I've made a long voyage and been to a strange country, and I've seen the dark man very close. And I don't think I was too much afraid of him. But I want most desperately to live. I want to see you again. For there is such an impossible anguish and regret for all I can never say to you, for all the work I have to do. I feel as if a great window has been opened on life. And if I come through this, I hope to God I am a better man and can live up to you. But most of all, I wanted to tell you, no matter what happens, I shall always feel about you the way I did that November day when you met me at the boat and we went on top of the building and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life were below. Yours always, Tom.