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Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.
— William H Gass
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
— William H Gass
A cause is a lie with a fan club.
— William H Gass
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
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
— Deepak Chopra
Some may still be impatient to die for the emperor, but the chief point in life is to die of something and never for something if it can be helped.
— William H Gass
What else is soul but a listener?
— William H Gass
Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.
— William H Gass
We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.
— William H Gass
Ah, but what is form but a bum wipe anyhow?
— William H Gass
One thing - one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.
— William H Gass
So it's true: Being without Being is blue.
— William H Gass
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
— William H Gass
And I am in retirement from love.
— William H Gass
Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
— William H Gass
It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
— William H Gass
I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.
— William H Gass
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
— William H Gass
Honey, you are a baby in this world and don't know how to howl yet.
— William H Gass
Excellence is inconveniently difficult.
— William H Gass
In the spring I'd shit with the door open, watching the blackbirds
— William H Gass
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
— William H Gass
The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.
— William H Gass
It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of freedom and caprice.
— William H Gass
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
Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.
— William H Gass
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
— William H Gass
We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as if from an imperfectly decorated cake.
— William H Gass
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
— William H Gass
Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.
— William H Gass
Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.
— William H Gass
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
— William H Gass
Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave.
— William H Gass
I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody.
— William H Gass
The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
— William H Gass
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
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
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
— William H Gass
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
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
— William H Gass
Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time.
— William H Gass
when one person gives
— Susan M. Gass
We were late among the living.
— William H Gass
Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.
— William H Gass
But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.
— William H Gass
I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.
— William H Gass
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
— William H Gass
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
Getting even is one reason for writing.
— William H Gass
