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Top 10 Gilbert Sorrentino Quotes (2025 Update)

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “It is no wonder lesbians love women.”

1. “It is no wonder lesbians love women.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

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Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.”

2. “They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?”

3. “What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.”

4. “What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “Art cannot save anybody from anything.”

5. “Art cannot save anybody from anything.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.”

6. “You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.”

7. “Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.”

8. “Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “What a joke it is to read or hear – as I have read or heard more times than I can count – that writers ‘see more clearly’ or ‘feel more deeply’ than non-writers. The truth of the matter is that writers hardly ‘see’ or ‘feel’ at all. The disparity between a writer’s works and the world per se is so great as to beggar comment. Writers who arrange their lives so as to ‘have experiences’ in order to reduce them to contemptible linguistic recordings of these experiences are beneath contempt.”

9. “What a joke it is to read or hear – as I have read or heard more times than I can count – that writers ‘see more clearly’ or ‘feel more deeply’ than non-writers. The truth of the matter is that writers hardly ‘see’ or ‘feel’ at all. The disparity between a writer’s works and the world per se is so great as to beggar comment. Writers who arrange their lives so as to ‘have experiences’ in order to reduce them to contemptible linguistic recordings of these experiences are beneath contempt.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “I like the cut of his jib and the glint in his eye, the arrow of his song and the beg of his question.”

10. “I like the cut of his jib and the glint in his eye, the arrow of his song and the beg of his question.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”

11. “All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “The maimings of love are endlessly funny...”

12. “The maimings of love are endlessly funny...”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.”

13. “On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino Quote: “One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”

14. “One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

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