How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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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
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William Gaddis
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.
William Gaddis
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