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William Gaddis Quotes

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power Picture Quote #1

Most people are clever because they don’t know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions Picture Quote #1

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible Picture Quote #1

We want someone to bring us the news Picture Quote #1

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? Picture Quote #1

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law Picture Quote #1

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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance Picture Quote #1

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist Picture Quote #1

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology Picture Quote #1

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of... recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it Picture Quote #1

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? Picture Quote #1

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there’s always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway! Picture Quote #1

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Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way? Picture Quote #1

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to Picture Quote #1

... mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having Picture Quote #1

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least Picture Quote #1

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money Picture Quote #1

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? Picture Quote #1

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We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. and the worse it gets the more comic we are Picture Quote #1

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work Picture Quote #1

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge Picture Quote #1

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me Picture Quote #1

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played Picture Quote #1

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power (William Gaddis Quotes) Most people are clever because they don’t know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions. (William Gaddis Quotes) How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible (William Gaddis Quotes) We want someone to bring us the news (William Gaddis Quotes) What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? (William Gaddis Quotes) Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law (William Gaddis Quotes) Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance (William Gaddis Quotes) If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist (William Gaddis Quotes) What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology (William Gaddis Quotes) Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of... recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it (William Gaddis Quotes) He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? (William Gaddis Quotes) I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there’s always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway! (William Gaddis Quotes) Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way? (William Gaddis Quotes) Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to (William Gaddis Quotes) ... mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having (William Gaddis Quotes) It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least (William Gaddis Quotes) If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money (William Gaddis Quotes) What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? (William Gaddis Quotes) We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. and the worse it gets the more comic we are (William Gaddis Quotes) There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work (William Gaddis Quotes) I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge (William Gaddis Quotes) How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me (William Gaddis Quotes) He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played (William Gaddis Quotes)