Quotes by William Gaddis

William Gaddis

…mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Memento

This World

World

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

Art

Creating

Feelings

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

Asking

Morning

Wish

He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as “rank presumption”.

Men

Responsibility

Tree

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Moments

Past

Real

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Blessing

Book

Boredom

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!

Law

Mean

Stealing

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Piano Music

Piano Playing

Player

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Beautiful

Doe

Ifs

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money

Ifs

People

Want

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Apology

Art

Artist

Asking

Audience

Beautiful

Blessing

Bliss

Book

Boredom

Bounce

Childhood

Comic

Crafts

Creating

Cultivation

Dictator

Doe

Drawing

Dregs

Enemy

Feelings

Hands

Heart

I Can

Ifs

Ignorance

Justice

Knows

Law

Long

Mean

Memento

Men

Moments

Morning

News

Past

People

Piano Music

Piano Playing

Player

Power

Reading

Real

Responsibility

Self

Shambles

Standing Alone

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Quotes by William Gaddis

William Gaddis

…mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

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!

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money

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