thought vast stacks books drive mad: read, less seemed know — greater — Thomas Wolfe, Time River: A Legend Man’s Hunger Youth

Of Time the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth Thomas Wolfe

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The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

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