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William H Gass quotes: Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace. Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.
William H Gass quotes: When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
William H Gass quotes: Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
William H Gass quotes: A cause is a lie with a fan club. A cause is a lie with a fan club.
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. 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 have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree. I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree.
William H Gass quotes: 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. 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 quotes: What else is soul but a listener? What else is soul but a listener?
William H Gass quotes: Ah, but what is form but a bum wipe anyhow? Ah, but what is form but a bum wipe anyhow?
William H Gass quotes: One thing - one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it. One thing - one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.
William H Gass quotes: So it's true: Being without Being is blue. So it's true: Being without Being is blue.
William H Gass quotes: Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf. Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
William H Gass quotes: And I am in retirement from love. And I am in retirement from love.
William H Gass quotes: Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
William H Gass quotes: It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
William H Gass quotes: I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily. I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.
William H Gass quotes: Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman. Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.
William H Gass quotes: The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H Gass quotes: Honey, you are a baby in this world and don't know how to howl yet. Honey, you are a baby in this world and don't know how to howl yet.
William H Gass quotes: Excellence is inconveniently difficult. Excellence is inconveniently difficult.
William H Gass quotes: In the spring I'd shit with the door open, watching the blackbirds In the spring I'd shit with the door open, watching the blackbirds
William H Gass quotes: The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not. The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.
William H Gass quotes: 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. 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 quotes: For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. 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: Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are. Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.
William H Gass quotes: I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
William H Gass quotes: I suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called coach. I suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called coach.
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. 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: We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming. We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.
William H Gass quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another. Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.
William H Gass quotes: Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
William H Gass quotes: Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things. Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
William H Gass quotes: Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate. Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.
William H Gass quotes: Myth murdering myth: that's war these days. Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.
William H Gass quotes: If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
William H Gass quotes: Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave. 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 quotes: I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody. I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody.
William H Gass quotes: The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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. 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: Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. 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: Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
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. 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: What one wants to do with stories is screw them up. What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
William H Gass quotes: Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time. Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time.
William H Gass quotes: We were late among the living. We were late among the living.
William H Gass quotes: Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies. Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.
William H Gass quotes: But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy. But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.
William H Gass quotes: I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God. I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.
William H Gass quotes: They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management. They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.
William H Gass quotes: Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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. 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: Getting even is one reason for writing. Getting even is one reason for writing.
William H Gass quotes: If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

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