The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet
William MaxwellA gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.
William MaxwellTag: gentlemen social-class
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
William MaxwellTag: love
Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.
William MaxwellTag: innocence
But he was careful. He didn’t make a simple remark without rehearsing it beforehand. And he continually removed the expression from his face lest it be the wrong one, and give him away. He also avoided any strong light, such as the lamp on the kitchen table. Sometimes a weakness overcame him, his legs were unstrung, and he had to find some place to sit down, but this was easy enough to disguise. It was his voice that gave him the most trouble. It sounded false to him and not like his voice at all.
William MaxwellI had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.
William MaxwellSometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.
William MaxwellThe reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,
William MaxwellMy father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.
William MaxwellReading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
William MaxwellTag: editor the-new-yorker novelist
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