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William Gaddis
William Gaddis
American Novelist
Born: Dec 29, 1922
Died: Dec 16, 1998
Artist Expect Get Live Work World
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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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