Quote #14

...Far beyond the confines of a novel; at a single stroke he invented and perfected a new form. No man could write the gigantic story that lies behind 'Company K,' but William March, by a brilliant refinement of form, has given us its essence and its broad sweep, flashes of its intensity and rich variety.

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  2. The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
  3. His book has the force of a mob-protest; an outcry from anonymous throats. The wheel turns and turns and it does not matter, one hardly not…
  4. The unrecognized genius of our time.
  5. Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.
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  7. People are born in sorrow and move about the earth in patterns of sorrow without sense and without plan. Why should I take myself so seriou…
  8. ...To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where t…

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