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Inspirational Quotes by William Gaddis
- We want someone to bring us the news.
- What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
- Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
- We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
- If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
- 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
- It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
- How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...
- ...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
- That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento