John Williams

Quotes

• “You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are...”
• “I am a man, and as foolish and weak as most men; if I have had an advantage over my fellows, it is that I have known thi...”
• “A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people tha...”
• “A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure-a...”
• “But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath ...”
• “...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what mu...”
• “she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so”
• “He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”