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William Gaddis Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Live World Grandfather Birth See

There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues.

Jenna Morasca

Best Advice Feel Help You Bad

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

John Cassavetes

Change People Two Only Hours Lives

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

Matthew Bourne

Go Places Reason Planned Successful

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

Michael Gerber

Business Small Build Need Worthy

Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.

Steven Crowder

Thought Christian New Hollywood Edgy

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

Romola Garai

History Justice Theatre Think Three

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Believe Nobody I Believe Compensation

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Christopher Hitchens

Depression Soul Giving Dark Defeat

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'

Chris Pavone

Book Potential Decisions Short Will

Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

Bret Stephens

Victim Been Just Dishonest Knows

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

Bryan White

Time Happy Me Year Christmas Matter

The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.

Pierre Nanterme

Growth Business Discipline Key Same