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William Gaddis quotes: Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.

Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.

William Gaddis quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

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.

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: Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.

Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.

William Gaddis quotes: ...he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.

...he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.

William Gaddis quotes: None of us grew but the business.

None of us grew but the business.

William Gaddis quotes: - 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(...)

- 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 quotes: Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

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

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: How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible ...

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible ...

William Gaddis quotes: She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care

She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care

William Gaddis quotes: Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

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?

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: Where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior

Where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior

William Gaddis quotes: Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

William Gaddis quotes: Are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

Are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

William Gaddis quotes: There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world ...

There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world ...

William Gaddis quotes: That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

William Gaddis quotes: I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie

I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie

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

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: How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gaddis quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people ...

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people ...

William Gaddis quotes: If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

William Gaddis quotes: You and I doctor, on the beach.

You and I doctor, on the beach.

William Gaddis quotes: I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.

I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.

William Gaddis quotes: We want someone to bring us the news.

We want someone to bring us the news.

William Gaddis quotes: Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

William Gaddis quotes: It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

William Gaddis quotes: ...the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.

...the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.

William Gaddis quotes: Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

Justice?
You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

William Gaddis quotes: There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

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

William Gaddis quotes: That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes.

That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes.

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?

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: The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.

The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.

William Gaddis quotes: 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.

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 quotes: We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity

We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity

William Gaddis quotes: In this world, God must serve the Devil.

In this world, God must serve the Devil.

William Gaddis quotes: success and like free enterprise and all

success and like free enterprise and all

William Gaddis quotes: -Money? in a voice that rustled.

-Money? in a voice that rustled.

William Gaddis quotes: Do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.

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 quotes: Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

William Gaddis quotes: A man's damnation is his own damned business.

A man's damnation is his own damned business.