Quote of the Day (Thomas Wolfe, on ‘The Ruined People That We Like’)

“[W]ith ruined people it is either love or hate: there is no middle way. The ruined people that we like are those who desperately have died, and lost their lives because they loved life dearly, and had that grandeur that makes such people spend prodigally the thing they love the best, and risk and lose their lives because it is so precious to them, and die at length because the seeds of life are in them. It is only the people that love life who die in this way— and these are the ruined people that we like.”—American novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth (1935)