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Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.
— William Gaddis
Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
— William Gaddis
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
— William Gaddis
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
Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.
— William Gaddis
...he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.
— William Gaddis
None of us grew but the business.
— William Gaddis
- What shall I do, in a Purgatory?... where they all speak spanish? I've never been in any kind of Purgatory before, and no one(...)
— William Gaddis
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
— John Lewis Gaddis
Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
— William Gaddis
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
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible ...
— William Gaddis
Derrida is not an excuse
— Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
— John Lewis Gaddis
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
— John Lewis Gaddis
Historians must not confuse the passage of time with the accumulation of intelligence," John Lewis Gaddis has cautioned.
— Douglas Boin
As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price.
— John Lewis Gaddis
President Carter inherited an impossible situation and he and his advisers made the worst of it. — Gaddis Smith
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
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
— William Gaddis
That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness ... That's all, it took him an hour to work that out.
— William Gaddis
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
— Gaddis Smith
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
— William Gaddis
There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world ...
— William Gaddis
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
— William Gaddis
Merry Christmas! the man threatened.
— William Gaddis
I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie
— William Gaddis
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
— John Lewis Gaddis
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people ...
— William Gaddis
You and I doctor, on the beach.
— William Gaddis
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
The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.
— John Gaddis
All we've got left to protect here is a system that's set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.
— William Gaddis
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.
— William Gaddis
We want someone to bring us the news.
— William Gaddis
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
— William Gaddis
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
— William Gaddis
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
— William Gaddis
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
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
— John Lewis Gaddis
I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.
— William Gaddis
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
— John Lewis Gaddis
Love paid a price so hope could become a reality.
— Susan Gaddis
We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity
— William Gaddis
In this world, God must serve the Devil.
— William Gaddis
success and like free enterprise and all
— William Gaddis
-Money? in a voice that rustled.
— William Gaddis
Do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.
— William Gaddis
Where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior
— William Gaddis
A man's damnation is his own damned business.
— William Gaddis
