William Gaddis Quotes
I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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A relationship is sent by God and accident.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.
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My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.
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The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
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I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
