"The love of literature, of language, of the……" — John Edward Williams
"The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly."
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John Edward Williams
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9 Quotes by John Edward Williams
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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 forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves…
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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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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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