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William Gaddis Quote: “With nothing of value to show the fact will disappear. There is no fact but value.”

51. “With nothing of value to show the fact will disappear. There is no fact but value.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “If you can do something other people can’t do, they think you ought to want to do it just because they can’t.”

52. “If you can do something other people can’t do, they think you ought to want to do it just because they can’t.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “Most of the trouble in the world is made by people finding something to do.”

53. “Most of the trouble in the world is made by people finding something to do.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “No matter how you love, you cannot repay the debts contracted in the loved one’s past, nor interfere with how the loved one tries to repay them. But you must pay, you do though you cannot.”

54. “No matter how you love, you cannot repay the debts contracted in the loved one’s past, nor interfere with how the loved one tries to repay them. But you must pay, you do though you cannot.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “Anything pleasurable could be counted upon to be, if not categorically evil, then worse, a waste of time.”

55. “Anything pleasurable could be counted upon to be, if not categorically evil, then worse, a waste of time.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “No you won’t understand will you! that your own selfish suffering’s easier than facing suffering you’ve caused.”

56. “No you won’t understand will you! that your own selfish suffering’s easier than facing suffering you’ve caused.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “What’s tragedy to you is an anecdote to anybody else.”

57. “What’s tragedy to you is an anecdote to anybody else.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “What do you mean do I go around with narcotics signing petitions painting slop writing books full of dirty words with a beard?”

58. “What do you mean do I go around with narcotics signing petitions painting slop writing books full of dirty words with a beard?”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “The sky was a deep gray-blue, banded with the colors of rust seen under water.”

59. “The sky was a deep gray-blue, banded with the colors of rust seen under water.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “It isn’t for love of the thing itself that an artist works, but so that through it he’s expressing love for something higher, because that’s the only place art is really free, serving something higher than itself.”

60. “It isn’t for love of the thing itself that an artist works, but so that through it he’s expressing love for something higher, because that’s the only place art is really free, serving something higher than itself.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “It’s just, sometimes it’s just too God damned long to be able to keep believing something’s real...”

61. “It’s just, sometimes it’s just too God damned long to be able to keep believing something’s real...”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “The only time suffering’s unbearable is when it’s meaningless.”

62. “The only time suffering’s unbearable is when it’s meaningless.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “But not in this world: things wore out, and you lost them in a thousand ways, preposterous and unconnected with any notion of devotion, martyrdom, sacrifice.”

63. “But not in this world: things wore out, and you lost them in a thousand ways, preposterous and unconnected with any notion of devotion, martyrdom, sacrifice.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “I love you for reasons you’ll never know anything about.”

64. “I love you for reasons you’ll never know anything about.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “He started to speak, but his father, looking away from him toward the east, made a sound, and they were both caught, as a swimmer on the surface is caught by that cold current whose suddenness snares him in cramps and sends him in dumb surprise to the bottom.”

65. “He started to speak, but his father, looking away from him toward the east, made a sound, and they were both caught, as a swimmer on the surface is caught by that cold current whose suddenness snares him in cramps and sends him in dumb surprise to the bottom.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “The women who admonish us for our weaknesses are usually those most surprised when we show our strength and leave them.”

66. “The women who admonish us for our weaknesses are usually those most surprised when we show our strength and leave them.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “And finally the gray yielded to dark, the clock made another try at striking the hour, missed, waited, tried again unheard, again, until the alarm stung the silence into another sunless day.”

67. “And finally the gray yielded to dark, the clock made another try at striking the hour, missed, waited, tried again unheard, again, until the alarm stung the silence into another sunless day.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive. Marriage demands of romantic love that it become a reality, and when an ideal becomes a reality it ceases to be an ideal.”

68. “The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive. Marriage demands of romantic love that it become a reality, and when an ideal becomes a reality it ceases to be an ideal.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don’t care.”

69. “She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don’t care.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “Of course,... you need to find the defendant guilty of negligence as the proximate cause of your injuries, but that is to say even once negligence is established, since the scope of the defendant’s liability can be no greater than the duty of care he owes to the plaintiff, he has not breached his duty if he has no duty and therefore he has no liability, and so in this case I suppose you would take the position that you owe a duty of care to yourself?”

70. “Of course,... you need to find the defendant guilty of negligence as the proximate cause of your injuries, but that is to say even once negligence is established, since the scope of the defendant’s liability can be no greater than the duty of care he owes to the plaintiff, he has not breached his duty if he has no duty and therefore he has no liability, and so in this case I suppose you would take the position that you owe a duty of care to yourself?”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “An artist does not exist, except as a vehicle for his work.”

71. “An artist does not exist, except as a vehicle for his work.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “We don’t know how little heaven is paying for how much hell.”

72. “We don’t know how little heaven is paying for how much hell.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “No, no I’ve failed enough at other people’s things I’ve done enough of other people’s damage from now on I’m just going to do my own, from now on I’m going to fail at my own.”

73. “No, no I’ve failed enough at other people’s things I’ve done enough of other people’s damage from now on I’m just going to do my own, from now on I’m going to fail at my own.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “A bell sounded silencing motion where anything moved, hurling motionlessness into activity, books gathered at a sweep, papers to the floor, a glove through the air.”

74. “A bell sounded silencing motion where anything moved, hurling motionlessness into activity, books gathered at a sweep, papers to the floor, a glove through the air.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “Nothing can be given, which cannot also be withheld.”

75. “Nothing can be given, which cannot also be withheld.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “The devil is the father of false art.”

76. “The devil is the father of false art.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.”

77. “Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “Paintings are metaphors for reality, but instead of being an aid to realization obscure the reality which is far more profound. The only way to circumvent painting is by absolute death.”

78. “Paintings are metaphors for reality, but instead of being an aid to realization obscure the reality which is far more profound. The only way to circumvent painting is by absolute death.”

— William Gaddis

William Gaddis Quote: “People who would soon be seen in New York reading French books were seen here reading Italian.”

79. “People who would soon be seen in New York reading French books were seen here reading Italian.”

— William Gaddis

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