William Gaddis Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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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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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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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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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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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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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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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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My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
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Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
