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: A Novel (ed. Random House, 2012) - ISBN: 9781448156023

John Edward Williams Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...