Top 35 William Gay Quotes (2024 Update)

William Gay Quote: “Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them. – CORMAC MCCARTHY, Child of God, 1973.”

1. “Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them. – CORMAC MCCARTHY, Child of God, 1973.”

— William Gay

William Gay Quote: “There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.”

2. “There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.”

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William Gay Quote: “You get a picture of things in your head and your picture is all you see. You don’t know me. You don’t even know yourself. All you know is your little picture of how things ought to be, and that’s the way you think they are.”

3. “You get a picture of things in your head and your picture is all you see. You don’t know me. You don’t even know yourself. All you know is your little picture of how things ought to be, and that’s the way you think they are.”

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William Gay Quote: “But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can’t deny your own kin.”

4. “But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can’t deny your own kin.”

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William Gay Quote: “Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left.”

5. “Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left.”

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William Gay Quote: “As night deepened all he could see was the shifting line of fire, like some malfunction in the wiring of the world itself, as if the very night had combusted and was creeping incrementally toward him.”

6. “As night deepened all he could see was the shifting line of fire, like some malfunction in the wiring of the world itself, as if the very night had combusted and was creeping incrementally toward him.”

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William Gay Quote: “For no other reason than that he was a devotee of Faulkner, he sent it to Random House first.”

7. “For no other reason than that he was a devotee of Faulkner, he sent it to Random House first.”

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William Gay Quote: “It was a place if not hell then certainly the room across the hall from it.”

8. “It was a place if not hell then certainly the room across the hall from it.”

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William Gay Quote: “I have a lot of books and books are better if you can share them.”

9. “I have a lot of books and books are better if you can share them.”

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William Gay Quote: “He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.”

10. “He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.”

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William Gay Quote: “There was something oddly restful about the fireflies. He couldn’t put his finger on it but he drew comfort from it anyway. The way they’d seemed not separate entities but a single being, a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night.”

11. “There was something oddly restful about the fireflies. He couldn’t put his finger on it but he drew comfort from it anyway. The way they’d seemed not separate entities but a single being, a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night.”

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William Gay Quote: “He was wishing the past was a place you could backtrack to, take a sideroad you’d walked hurriedly past, wake somebody from a bad dream he was having.”

12. “He was wishing the past was a place you could backtrack to, take a sideroad you’d walked hurriedly past, wake somebody from a bad dream he was having.”

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William Gay Quote: “It was the first time they had ever talked face to face and Breece divined in a moment of dizzy revelation something about Sutter that no one had noticed before. Why, he is mad, Breece thought. He’s not what people say about him at all. He’s not just mean as a snake or eccentric or independent. He’s as mad as a hatter, and I don’t know how they’ve let him go so long.”

13. “It was the first time they had ever talked face to face and Breece divined in a moment of dizzy revelation something about Sutter that no one had noticed before. Why, he is mad, Breece thought. He’s not what people say about him at all. He’s not just mean as a snake or eccentric or independent. He’s as mad as a hatter, and I don’t know how they’ve let him go so long.”

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William Gay Quote: “Patton’s store. A grinning man would halt the wagon with an upraised arm but it would not halt. When he noticed the quiltcovered cargo the wagon transported, he called, What you got there, Sandy? The driver turned and spat and wiped his mouth and glanced back briefly but he didn’t stay the wagon. Dead folks, he said.”

14. “Patton’s store. A grinning man would halt the wagon with an upraised arm but it would not halt. When he noticed the quiltcovered cargo the wagon transported, he called, What you got there, Sandy? The driver turned and spat and wiped his mouth and glanced back briefly but he didn’t stay the wagon. Dead folks, he said.”

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William Gay Quote: “Hovington cowered on the porch alternately praying and swearing in a desperate attempt to cover all the bases.”

15. “Hovington cowered on the porch alternately praying and swearing in a desperate attempt to cover all the bases.”

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William Gay Quote: “Times is always hard for some, the old man observed.”

16. “Times is always hard for some, the old man observed.”

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William Gay Quote: “She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.”

17. “She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.”

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William Gay Quote: “The cornfield seemed darker toward its center. Light entered at the rows’ end, ran like liquid down the middles, getting shallower and shallower. There seemed at the convergence of the rows some mass of shadows light could not defray.”

18. “The cornfield seemed darker toward its center. Light entered at the rows’ end, ran like liquid down the middles, getting shallower and shallower. There seemed at the convergence of the rows some mass of shadows light could not defray.”

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William Gay Quote: “Binder, in his youth, had always been interested in the supernatural, had felt some deep and nameless affinity for the questions that did not have any answers.”

19. “Binder, in his youth, had always been interested in the supernatural, had felt some deep and nameless affinity for the questions that did not have any answers.”

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William Gay Quote: “Two, it seemed, could not live nearly as cheaply as one, especially if that one had been accustomed to subsisting on whatever fell to hand, spending what little money he did have in secondhand bookstores.”

20. “Two, it seemed, could not live nearly as cheaply as one, especially if that one had been accustomed to subsisting on whatever fell to hand, spending what little money he did have in secondhand bookstores.”

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William Gay Quote: “They trickled down sunless corridors and burst capillaries until they were in the city’s dark heart. A city within a city where the blood slowed and thickened and clotted in viscous smears of alizarin crimson dried to burnt sienna around the edges.”

21. “They trickled down sunless corridors and burst capillaries until they were in the city’s dark heart. A city within a city where the blood slowed and thickened and clotted in viscous smears of alizarin crimson dried to burnt sienna around the edges.”

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William Gay Quote: “He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.”

22. “He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.”

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William Gay Quote: “She looked at him fondly. You won’t never make much of a liar, she said. I can see right through you like lookin down into still water. I expect law and politics is goin to be out of your reach.”

23. “She looked at him fondly. You won’t never make much of a liar, she said. I can see right through you like lookin down into still water. I expect law and politics is goin to be out of your reach.”

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William Gay Quote: “What he wanted, he had realized in the last few minutes, was everything. He wanted the rest of her life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.”

24. “What he wanted, he had realized in the last few minutes, was everything. He wanted the rest of her life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.”

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William Gay Quote: “Her quickened breath was the very affirmation of life.”

25. “Her quickened breath was the very affirmation of life.”

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William Gay Quote: “There’s somethin about you. Some folks say more than they know. You say considerable less. There’s somethin about you, and I don’t know if it’s a great good or a great evil. Well. You being a witch and all, looks like you’d know. I would if you wadn’t blockin it out. You’re hidin somethin.”

26. “There’s somethin about you. Some folks say more than they know. You say considerable less. There’s somethin about you, and I don’t know if it’s a great good or a great evil. Well. You being a witch and all, looks like you’d know. I would if you wadn’t blockin it out. You’re hidin somethin.”

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William Gay Quote: “He began to suspect another, deeper layer of time, a time of stone and cloud and tree to which the time of clocks and calendars was a gross mockery cobbled up by savages. He felt the ways of men fall from him like sundered shackles.”

27. “He began to suspect another, deeper layer of time, a time of stone and cloud and tree to which the time of clocks and calendars was a gross mockery cobbled up by savages. He felt the ways of men fall from him like sundered shackles.”

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William Gay Quote: “He was seized with longing so intense it ached in his chest, he wanted it always to keep, to drag out secretly and study it like a yellowed photograph, and he thought I am home, this is me, this is where I have been rambling down to all these years.”

28. “He was seized with longing so intense it ached in his chest, he wanted it always to keep, to drag out secretly and study it like a yellowed photograph, and he thought I am home, this is me, this is where I have been rambling down to all these years.”

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William Gay Quote: “Folks called this place haunted, felt the emanations of an unspeakable act moving outward like ripples on water.”

29. “Folks called this place haunted, felt the emanations of an unspeakable act moving outward like ripples on water.”

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William Gay Quote: “From a high point of cupping the breast of the prettiest girl in a three-county area things could only go downhill...”

30. “From a high point of cupping the breast of the prettiest girl in a three-county area things could only go downhill...”

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William Gay Quote: “What advice Phelan could possibly have given him. All these myriad differences between the world he was discovering and the world he’d been taught. There was nothing in Yeats or Eliot or Browning to cover this: had the situation been reversed, Phelan would probably have been coming to him for advice. He wondered how Eliot would have fared against the look in Sutter’s dead eyes.”

31. “What advice Phelan could possibly have given him. All these myriad differences between the world he was discovering and the world he’d been taught. There was nothing in Yeats or Eliot or Browning to cover this: had the situation been reversed, Phelan would probably have been coming to him for advice. He wondered how Eliot would have fared against the look in Sutter’s dead eyes.”

— William Gay

William Gay Quote: “He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens, where folks kept whippoorwills for pets and didn’t get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.”

32. “He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens, where folks kept whippoorwills for pets and didn’t get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.”

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William Gay Quote: “He was continually called upon to explain himself and day by day it had grown harder so that by now there didn’t seem to be any words, the right phrases hadn’t been coined yet.”

33. “He was continually called upon to explain himself and day by day it had grown harder so that by now there didn’t seem to be any words, the right phrases hadn’t been coined yet.”

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William Gay Quote: “He had no faith in the permanence of any of this. What he’d seen of life had shown him that the world had little of comfort or assurance. He suspected that there were no givens, no map through the maze. Here in falling dark with the world rolling simultaneously toward him and away from him everything seemed no more than random. Life blindsides you so hard you can taste the bright copper blood in your mouth then it beguiles you with a gift of profound and appalling beauty.”

34. “He had no faith in the permanence of any of this. What he’d seen of life had shown him that the world had little of comfort or assurance. He suspected that there were no givens, no map through the maze. Here in falling dark with the world rolling simultaneously toward him and away from him everything seemed no more than random. Life blindsides you so hard you can taste the bright copper blood in your mouth then it beguiles you with a gift of profound and appalling beauty.”

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William Gay Quote: “For the first time in his life he realized that sometimes in life you go through doors that only open one way. You can stand before them and think about whether you want to go through them or not. But when you do and the door closes behind you there is no way to go back. The door is featureless and unknobbed and smooth as a sheet of glass. You can pound on it and claw till your fingers are bleeding, scream until your throat is raw, but no one will open the door, no one will even hear you.”

35. “For the first time in his life he realized that sometimes in life you go through doors that only open one way. You can stand before them and think about whether you want to go through them or not. But when you do and the door closes behind you there is no way to go back. The door is featureless and unknobbed and smooth as a sheet of glass. You can pound on it and claw till your fingers are bleeding, scream until your throat is raw, but no one will open the door, no one will even hear you.”

— William Gay

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