The Man Who Cried I Am Quotes

“The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.”
― John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am

“Man is nature, nature man, and all crude and raw, stinking, vicious, evil. And holding that evil lightly because the collective mind refuses to recall the spring of mountains, the vault of seas and, of course, beside that, the puny murder of millions.”
― John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am

“One looks at death, always moves toward it, but until the last denies its existence.”
― John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am

“A writer worth his salt is not going to write about how damned lovely it is; it isn’t, that’s why so many people tell themselves it is [lovely].”
― John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am

“A writer had to stand the silences that came with being alone[…]. You could think when you were alone, and writers needed to think.”
― John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am