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

He looked at them curiously, as if he had not seen them before, and felt very distant from them and very close to them. — John Edward Williams

A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University. — John Edward Williams

One must be prepared to suffer for one's beliefs. — John Edward Williams

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it? — John Edward Williams

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

No, sir, Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made. — John Edward Williams

She turned to him and pulled her lips in what he knew must be a smile. Not at all. I'm having a lovely time. Really. — John Edward Williams

But we were never really - together. Even when we made love. — John Edward Williams

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time. — John Edward Williams

Busying herself with inconsequential tasks. — John Edward Williams

To care not for one's self is of little moment, but to care not for those whom one has loved is another matter. — John Edward Williams

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery. — John Edward Williams

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm - thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress. — John Edward Williams

Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive — John Edward Williams

Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax. — John Edward Williams

Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat. — John Edward Williams

The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children. — John Edward Williams

When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be. — John Edward Williams

But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned. — John Edward Williams

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry, — John Edward Williams

She seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so — John Edward Williams

Beneath his awe, he had a sudden sense of security and serenity he had never felt before. — John Edward Williams

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. — John Edward Williams

His mother regarded her life patiently, as if it were a long moment that she had to endure. — John Edward Williams

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful. — John Edward Williams

Finch turned to the other men and without raising his voice managed to call out to them. — John Edward Williams

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance. — John Edward Williams

Lust and learning," Katherine once said. "That's really all there is, isn't it? — John Edward Williams

When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh. — John Edward Williams

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. — John Edward Williams

Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve. — John Edward Williams

That is the very best time of life, he thought again: when you are very young, when living is a simple, perfect succession of golden days. — John Edward Williams

For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies. — John Edward Williams

Stoner saw them through a haze, as if he were an audience. — John Edward Williams

The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying, — John Edward Williams

He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember. — John Edward Williams

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. — John Edward Williams

Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible. — John Edward Williams

He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought. — John Edward Williams

Looking at her, Stoner was assailed by a consciousness of his own heavy clumsiness. — John Edward Williams