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William Gaddis Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1922 - December 16, 1998

Topics

Work Reading Nothing More Audience

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

Johannes P. Muller

Light Experience Sound Difficulty

Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.

Time War World Generation Security

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals.

Stephanie Coontz

Goals Marriage People Free Feel

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Power Reality Corruption Bad Corrupt

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.

Goals Myself I Am Proud Someone Bad

To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.

Singing Speak Selling Wild Out Kids

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

Play Important Policy Role Foreign

I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.

Life Good Wake Up Dare Damn Lucky

Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

Miguel Nicolelis

Heart Brain Doubt Will Become About

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Nature People Me Some People Forever

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

People Important Poem Who Affects

Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.

Love Music Acting Ready Will First

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