"The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest printâ€”the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly."

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Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

John Edward Williams

#Love Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Sometimes I think thereâ€™s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet thereâ€™s an angelâ€”or, more likely, a demonâ€”assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.”
“Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.”
“I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.”
“As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.”
“What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.”
“Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”

Source : Paul Monette (2014). “No Witnesses: Poems”, p.126, Open Road Media
“The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.”

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