"You must remember what you are and what……" — John Edward Williams
"You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do."
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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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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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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
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