4 Quotes & Sayings By William Kennedy

William Kennedy is a bestselling author and historian. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the College of the Holy Cross. In 1994, his first book, Ironweed, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 2005 he received the National Humanities Medal from President George W Read more

Bush. He has been a columnist for The New York Times Magazine and a commentator on National Public Radio's This American Life. He lives with his wife in New York City.

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Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet. William Kennedy
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In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable intimate encounters with them, was seriously bescrewed. Further, she grew certain from a recurring nightmare that should she ever consider a man as a second spouse, he would strangle her in her bed with a ligature. William Kennedy
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Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. William Kennedy