The young man, who does not kno... - John Edward Williams - Quotes.Pub

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. Like any poor, pitiable shell of an actor, he comes to see that he has played so many parts that there no longer is himself.

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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.

she had never been alone to care for her own self one day of her life, nor could it ever have occurred to her that she might become responsible for the well- being of another.

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Una guerra no sólo mata a unos cuantos miles o a unos cuantos cientos de miles de jóvenes. Mata algo en la gente que no puede recuperarse nunca. Y si alguien pasa por suficientes guerras, pronto todo lo que queda es el bruto, la criatura que nosotros —usted y yo, y otros como nosotros— han sacado del fango».

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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know. He

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Stoner said to Finch, “I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.

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He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

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كان احيانا، وهو في عليته، في الليل، يتوقف عن القراءة ويتطلع لأركان غرفته المظلمة حيث يتراقص لهب المصباح في الظلام. إن حدّق طويلا بتركيز، تتجمع الظلمة في كتلة ضوء تتخذ الشكل اللامادي لما كان يقرأه، ويشعر بأنه خرج عن الزمن. يتجمع الماضي ويخرج من الظلام حيث ظل قابعاً، ويعود الموتى إلى الحياة يقفون أمامه، ويسير الماضي والموتى في الحاضر بين الأحياء، وفي لحظة زاخرة تأتيه رؤية كثيفة فيندمج فيها دون أن يستطيع الخروج منها، ودون أن يرغب في الخروج منها.

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And it occurred to him at last, with the finality of knowledge, that he had never known another human being with any intimacy or trust or with the human warmth of commitment.

She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.

He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend.

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

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Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant, and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant or the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men moments of simplicity and grace.

From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

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Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door.

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writes within it, is erudite, stately, illuminating. The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying,

Butcher's Crossing Quotes

Perhaps you were right after all, my dear Nicolaus; perhaps there is but one god. But if that is true, you have misnamed him. He is Accident, and his priest is man, and that priest's only victim must be at last himself, his poor divided self.

DURING THAT YEAR, and especially in the winter months, he found himself returning more and more frequently to such a state of unreality; at will, he seemed able to remove his consciousness from the body that contained it, and he observed himself as if he were an oddly familiar stranger doing the oddly familiar things that he had to do. It was a dissociation that he had never felt before; he knew that he ought to be troubled by it, but he was numb, and he could not convince himself that it mattered.

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Begone, begone, you bloody whoreson Gauls!

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A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.

One part of him recoiled in instinctive horror at the daily waste, the inundation of destruction and death that inexorably assaulted the mind and heart; once again he saw the faculty depleted, he saw the haunted looks upon those who remained behind, and saw in those looks the slow death of the heart, the bitter attrition of feeling and care.

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Na sua mocidade, Stoner imaginara o amor como um estado absoluto do ser ao qual uma pessoa, se tivesse sorte, podia aceder um dia; na idade adulta, decidira que era o paraíso de uma falsa religião, que uma pessoa devia encarar com uma divertida incredulidade, um suave desprezo familiar e uma nostalgia embaraçada. Agora, na meia-idade, começava a perceber que não era nem um estado de graça, nem uma ilusão; via-o como um ato humano de transformação, uma condição que era inventada e alterada de momento para momento e de dia para dia, através da vontade, da inteligência e do coração.

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William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree and accepted an instructorship at the same University, where he taught until his death in 1956. He did not rise above the rank of assistant professor, and few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses. When he died his colleagues made a memorial contribution of a medieval manuscript to the University library. This manuscript may still be found in the Rare Books Collection, bearing the inscription: 'Presented to the Library of the University of Missouri, in memory of William Stoner, Department of English. By his colleagues.'An occasional student who comes upon the name may wonder idly who William Stoner was, but he seldom pursues his curiosity beyond a casual questions. Stoner's colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now; to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers.

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She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life.

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He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire...

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he thought of the years before, the distant years with his parents on the farm, and of the deadness from which he had been miraculously revived.

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