"To read without joy is stupid." — John Edward Williams
"To read without joy is stupid."
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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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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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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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