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William Gaddis Quotes

William Gaddis quotes about world

American Novelist December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998

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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender. William Gaddis
-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again,-Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in the newspapers every morning. The masses, the fetid masses, he says, bringing all his weight to his feet.-How can they even suspect a self who can do more, when they live under absolutely no obligation. There are so few beautiful things in the world... 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
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one..."
Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you..."
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. William Gaddis
William Gaddis quote: "mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were..."
...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having. William Gaddis

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