William Gaddis Quotes

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis

Ignorance, Stupidity, Deliberate

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

Through, Boredom, Dying

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.
William Gaddis

Live, Player, Yes

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

Work, Nothing, Reading

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

Time, Live, Worse

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William Gaddis

Justice, Law, Next

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

Work, Person, High

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

Work, Human, Done

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 29, 1922

Died: December 16, 1998

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