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From Quotes by William Gaddis
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
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