Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. - William Gaddis
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
- William Gaddis
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist. - William Gaddis
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
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… - 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…
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. - William Gaddis
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. - William Gaddis
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? - William Gaddis
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. - William Gaddis
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. - William Gaddis
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. - William Gaddis
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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