Carolina QuotesI shivered in the knowledge of the futility of all ambition. My mouth was sour with the yellow recollection of death and blood-smeared fields and walls. I watched the girl slip away, vanish without a hand laid upon her. Who knows but whether we were not doomed to lose. I know nothing any longer. Nothing. Did I really wish to vouchsafe a life for the one that I had taken?
William Styron Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Part III : Study War
- work
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
- year
- 1967
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“I shivered in the knowledge of the futility of all ambition.…” William Styron. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-69F408CEBD. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/69f408cebd
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