What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? 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.
William GaddisThe dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated French in guttural gasps, coming from a land where it was regarded neither as the most beautiful language, as in America, nor the only one, as in France.
William Gaddis...the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.
William Gaddis...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
William GaddisHow real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...
William GaddisSay 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.
William Gaddis-Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...
William GaddisThat after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness... That's all, it took him an hour to work that out.
William GaddisGet a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
William GaddisI 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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