Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
More Quotes from William Gaddis:
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.William Gaddis
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
. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunder
William Gaddis
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William Gaddis
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
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