William Gaddis Quotes
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.
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
...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?
All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.
Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
