John Williams
Born
in Clarksville, Texas, The United States
August 29, 1922
Died
March 03, 1994
Genre
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Stoner
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5 editions
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1965
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Butcher's Crossing
77 editions
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published
1960
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Augustus
107 editions
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published
1972
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Nothing But the Night
30 editions
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published
1948
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English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson
9 editions
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published
1963
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The Necessary Lie
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1965
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Collected Novels: Butcher’s Crossing / Stoner / Augustus
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The Broken Landscape: Poems
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published
1949
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Stoner & Anhang zu Leben und Werk von John Williams
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HEALTHY SMOOTHIE RECIPE BOOK FOR BEGINNERS
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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
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