Quotes of William Gaddis - somelinesforyou

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. ”

- William Gaddis

“ We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ”

- William Gaddis

“ There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ”

- William Gaddis

“ We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ”

- 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 misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon. ”

- 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 misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- 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

“ 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 misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Justice? — You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law. ”

- William Gaddis

“ We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. ”

- 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 misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis

“ What's an artist, but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around? ”

- 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

“ There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ”

- William Gaddis

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis
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