William Gaddis Quotes
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Pride is a fool's fortress.
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What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
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Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
