“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Words, so much more readily remembered, gradually replace our past with their own. Our birth pangs become pages. Our battles, our triumphs,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another long and empty day to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
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