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William Gaddis Quotes
William Gaddis Quotes
William Gaddis
American
Novelist
Born:
Dec 29
,
1922
Died:
Dec 16
,
1998
Artist
Expect
Get
Live
Work
World
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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis
Ignorance
Stupidity
Deliberate
Cultivation
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
Work
Reading
Nothing
Distressing
More
Writer
Audience
His
Than
Front
Tiresome
Standing
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
Me
Books
Boredom
Some
Through
Writers
Come
Beyond
Without
How
Get
Dying
Across
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
William Gaddis
Work
Man
Follows
He
Around
His
Left
Expect
Get
Any
Artist
Done
Human
Want
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William Gaddis
You
Justice
Legal
World
Law
Get
Next
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
World
Binary
Live
Other
Birth
Ancestors
See
Entire
Computer
Piano
Yes
Than
Option
Refuge
Where
Grandfather
Player
Nightmare
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