Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 February 1923
- Died
- 19 January 1997
- Works
- 126
Top works
- Stolen apples
- Flight or Fright
- Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
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- Listeners
- 41
- Total plays
- 279
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Quotes
- “I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.”
- “Nobody worth a damn could ever come from such a place. It was nothing, like most places and people are nothing.”
- “What a view, I said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.”
- “I decided that survival was not in the rivets and the metal, and not in the double-sealed doors and not in the marbles of Chinese checkers. It was in me. It came down to the man, and what he could do. The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.”
- “I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border.”
- “Something or other was being made good. I touched the knife hilt at my side, and remembered that all men were once boys, and that boys are always looking for ways to become men. Some of the ways are easy, too; all you have to do is be satisfied that it has happened.”
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