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William Maxwell quotes: A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

William Maxwell quotes: But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of a journey.

But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of a journey.

William Maxwell quotes: Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed.

Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed.

William Maxwell quotes: I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living.

I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living.

William Maxwell quotes: I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave.

William Maxwell quotes: You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could.

You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could.

William Maxwell quotes: It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

William Maxwell quotes: It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

William Maxwell quotes: I am the cat that walks alone.

I am the cat that walks alone.

William Maxwell quotes: in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before

in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before

William Maxwell quotes: My father represented authority, which meant - to me - that he could not also represent understanding.

My father represented authority, which meant - to me - that he could not also represent understanding.

William Maxwell quotes: Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

William Maxwell quotes: His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

William Maxwell quotes: There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.' (from "The Man in the Moon")

There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.' (from "The Man in the Moon")

William Maxwell quotes: To be up to the eyebrows in a great work of literature is such happiness.

To be up to the eyebrows in a great work of literature is such happiness.

William Maxwell quotes: If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

William Maxwell quotes: That's what I try to do - write sentences that won't be like sand castles.

That's what I try to do - write sentences that won't be like sand castles.

William Maxwell quotes: It was the unexpected that happened, always.

It was the unexpected that happened, always.

William Maxwell quotes: A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

William Maxwell quotes: ...human thought is by no means as private as it seems, and all that you need to read somebody else's mind is the willingness to read your own.

...human thought is by no means as private as it seems, and all that you need to read somebody else's mind is the willingness to read your own.

William Maxwell quotes: Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.

Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.

William Maxwell quotes: The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,

William Maxwell quotes: One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam.

One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam.

William Maxwell quotes: The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

William Maxwell quotes: What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

William Maxwell quotes: Your reader is at least as bright as you are

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

William Maxwell quotes: Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

William Maxwell quotes: Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell quotes: Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

William Maxwell quotes: As he turned away I had the feeling he had washed his hands of me. Was I not the kind of little boy he wanted to have?

As he turned away I had the feeling he had washed his hands of me. Was I not the kind of little boy he wanted to have?

William Maxwell quotes: It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.