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William H Gass Quotes

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things Picture Quote #1

What else is soul but a listener? Picture Quote #1

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store Picture Quote #1

As a teacher, it’s a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don’t believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door Picture Quote #1

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It’s a conceptual art Picture Quote #1

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock Picture Quote #1

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I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken’s wing Picture Quote #1

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection Picture Quote #1

Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don’t just try and switch the lights on Picture Quote #1

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes Picture Quote #1

It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday Picture Quote #1

I don’t know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it’s what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy Picture Quote #1

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If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return Picture Quote #1

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it Picture Quote #1

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life Picture Quote #1

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal Picture Quote #1

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up Picture Quote #1

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard Picture Quote #1

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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy Picture Quote #1

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated Picture Quote #1

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words Picture Quote #1

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine Picture Quote #1

Getting even is one reason for writing Picture Quote #1

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex Picture Quote #1

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When book and reader’s furrowed brow meet, it isn’t always the book that’s stupid Picture Quote #1

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won’t have to fool around with it any longer Picture Quote #1

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word Picture Quote #1

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Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things (William H Gass Quotes) What else is soul but a listener? (William H Gass Quotes) As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. (William H Gass Quotes) As a teacher, it’s a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don’t believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door. (William H Gass Quotes) Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It’s a conceptual art. (William H Gass Quotes) For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock (William H Gass Quotes) I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken’s wing (William H Gass Quotes) I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection (William H Gass Quotes) Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don’t just try and switch the lights on (William H Gass Quotes) I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes (William H Gass Quotes) It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday (William H Gass Quotes) I don’t know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it’s what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy (William H Gass Quotes) If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return (William H Gass Quotes) The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it (William H Gass Quotes) Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life (William H Gass Quotes) Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal (William H Gass Quotes) What one wants to do with stories is screw them up (William H Gass Quotes) I write because I hate. A lot. Hard (William H Gass Quotes) Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy (William H Gass Quotes) Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated (William H Gass Quotes) The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words (William H Gass Quotes) If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine (William H Gass Quotes) Getting even is one reason for writing (William H Gass Quotes) For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex (William H Gass Quotes) When book and reader’s furrowed brow meet, it isn’t always the book that’s stupid (William H Gass Quotes) I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won’t have to fool around with it any longer (William H Gass Quotes) It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word (William H Gass Quotes)