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William Gaddis Quotes: We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
         

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.


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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?



Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.



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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.



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 world you have the law.



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

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



Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.



How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.



...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.



It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.



How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

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I sold my soul to the devil. I'd like to thank the devil.

I sold my soul to the devil. I'd like to thank the devil.



You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.



Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.



Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?




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