"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what……" — John Edward Williams
"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."
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John Edward Williams
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9 Quotes by John Edward Williams
John Edward Williams has 9 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of…
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To read without joy is stupid.
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In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather,…
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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something…
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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were…
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The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange,…
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It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that…
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You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
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