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Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain. Though he seldom thought of his early years on [the] farm, there was always near his consciousness the blood knowledge of his inheritance, given him by forefathers whose lives were onscure and hard and stoical and whose common ethic was to present to an oppressive world faves that were expressionless and hard and bleak.
— May 04, 2025 11:57PM
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Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered in his words; and what moved him most became cold in its utterance. And the consciousness of his inadequacy distressed him so greatly that the sense of it grew habitual, as much a part of him as the stoop of his shoulders.
— Apr 24, 2025 07:41AM
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"It was a new knowledge he had of Edith, this desire that was like a hunger so intense that it seemed to have nothing to do with her self; and no sooner was it sated than it began at once to grow again whithin her, so that they both lived in the tense expectation of its presence."
— Apr 17, 2025 05:33AM
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Her parents behaved toward each other with a distant courtesy; Edith never saw pass between them the spontaneous warmth of either anger or love. Anger was days of courteous silence, and love was a word of courteous endearment. She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest consitions of her life.
— Apr 16, 2025 01:41AM
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"But before William Stoner the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which new books might be added and from which old ones might be withdrawn, while its true nature remained essentially unchanged."
— Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
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Stoner tried to explain to his father what he intended to do, tried to evoke in him his own sense of significance and purpose. He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.
— Apr 10, 2025 11:47PM
