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We want someone to bring us the news.
William Gaddis / Novelist
Crafts
News
Want
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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
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Artist
Dregs
Shambles
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Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
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Power
Dictator
People
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
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Power
People
Corrupt
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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
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Cultivation
Deliberate
Ignorance
Stupid
Stupidity
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If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
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Beautiful
Doe
Ifs
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Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
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Legal
Justice
Law
Next
World
Get
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That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.
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Bounce
I Can
Knows
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It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
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Bliss
Childhood
Knows
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How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
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Moments
Past
Real
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We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
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Comic
Worse
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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Blessing
Book
Boredom
Dying
Across
Beyond
Writers
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Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
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People
Want
Way
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...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
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Memento
This World
World
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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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Audience
Distressing
Reading
Standing
Standing Alone
Tiresome
Writer
Front
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If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
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Ifs
People
Want
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He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
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Morning
Asking
Wish
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I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
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Law
Mean
Stealing
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What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
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Men
Apology
Artist
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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.
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Caught
Collapse
Regard
Afterwards
Noted
Recovered
Seldom
Spoken
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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.
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Binary
Computer
Grandfather
Nightmare
Piano Music
Piano Playing
Player
Refuge
Where World Live
Ancestors
Option
Entire
Yes
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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?
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Work Man Done
Follows
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Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.
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Art
Creating
Feelings
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That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.
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Age
Enemy
Self
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Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
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Long
Mean
Telephones
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
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Drawing
Hands
Heart
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He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".
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Men
Responsibility
Tree
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