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Thomas Wolfe:
The last time I saw my father, I was standing as a train window, when I went north to college. He just got smaller and smaller as we pulled away, until I couldn't see him anymore. That train carried me to my life; beyond the hills and over the rivers. And always the rivers run. Sometimes they flow away from my father, and Sometimes they flow back to his door. I have to prove I can do it by myself. Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Then prove it
The last time I saw my father, I was standing as a train window, when I went north to college. He just got smaller and smaller as we pulled away, until I couldn't see him anymore. That train carried me to my life; beyond the hills and over the rivers. And always the rivers run. Sometimes they flow away from my father, and Sometimes they flow back to his door. I have to prove I can do it by myself. Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Then prove it
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The last time i saw my father
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I was standing at a train window
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when I went north to college
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He just got smaller and smaller
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as we pulled away
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until I couldn't see him anymore
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That train carried me to my life
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Movie Summary
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
