William H Gass Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by William H Gass
William H Gass Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
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.
One thing - one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.
Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.
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.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
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.
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave.
The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
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.
But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.