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Stoner by John  Williams
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John  Williams
“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
John Williams, Stoner
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John  Williams
“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.”
John Williams, Stoner

John  Williams
“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 print—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.”
John Williams, Stoner


Reading Progress

June 1, 2015 – Started Reading (Other Paperback Edition)
June 1, 2015 – Shelved (Other Paperback Edition)
June 3, 2015 – Finished Reading (Other Paperback Edition)
April 15, 2020 – Shelved as: favorites (Other Paperback Edition)
February 14, 2024 – Shelved
August 12, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read

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