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William Gaddis Quotes

William Gaddis quotes

American Novelist December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998

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Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it... William Gaddis
... and she turned for the stairs as the sound of rain came, finally, scattered across the roof, a fall that now gave substance to the stilled beams of headlamps in the drive where those of flashlights rose and fell to the cadenced steps come back and round the range of yew and up the terrace and through the door to fall on broken glass and flee across the inkstained carpet, darting, climbing, caught fixed in niches, they scaled the walls and leaped the beams to skirt the hayloft. William Gaddis
The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf... 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
Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not simply touch him but lift him and carry him away. William Gaddis
-Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of knowledge itself, and that disorder and... William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God..."
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
William Gaddis quote: "We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And..."
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
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village. William Gaddis
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer..."
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. William Gaddis
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "If you want to make a million you don't have to understand..."
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
-And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books.-That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels. Besides there is already that bequest for the library.-Did it say books in so many words? No. It's just a bequest for the library.-Use it for pegboard. You need pegboard in a library. Books you don't know what you're getting into. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "How some of the writers I come across get through their books..."
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. William Gaddis

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