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William Gaddis Quotes

William Gaddis quotes about time

American Novelist December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998

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He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives. William Gaddis
--Here, my good man. Could you tell me whereabouts Horatio Street... good heavens. Thus called upon, he took courage; the sursum corda of an extravagant belch straightened him upright, and he answered, --Whfffck? Whether this was an approach to discussion he had devised himself, or a subtle adaptation of the Socratic method of questioning perfected in the local athenaeums which he attended until closing time, was not to be known; for the answer was,--Stand aside. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten..."
where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior William Gaddis
He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion. William Gaddis
Even in sleep, he was waiting, a little tense like everyone waiting within reach of a telephone, for it to ring. And still, even in sleep, he knew there would be time. Adam, after all, lived for nine hundred thirty years. 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

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