John Williams Quotes
But don't you know, Mr. Stoner?" Sloane asked. "Don't you understand about yourself yet? You're going to be a teacher." Suddenly Sloane seemed very distant, and the walls of the office receded. Stoner felt himself suspended in the wide air, and he heard his voice ask, "Are you sur . . . Read more

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You mustn't give it up," he said, and his voice took on an urgency that he could not understand. "No matter how hard it will seem sometimes, you mustn't give it up. It's too good for you to give it up. Oh, it's good, there's no doubt of it.

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He is a man like any other… he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident of his fate.

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... un etica che gli imponeva di offrire al mondo tiranno visi sempre inespressivi, rigidi e spenti.

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Di colpo era come se Katherine fosse nella stanza accanto e l'avesse lasciata solo qualche istante prima. Sentì un pizzicore alle dita, come se la stesse toccando. Il senso di quella perdita, che aveva rinchiuso così a lungo dentro di sé, straripò sommergendolo mentre lui si lasci . . . Read more

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He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

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He was silent for a long time as he looked from face to face. He heard his voice issue flatly. "I have taught..." he said. He began again. "I have taught at this University for nearly forty years. I do not know what I would have done if I had not been a teacher. If I had not taught, I . . . Read more

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But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which ne . . . Read more

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