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Work Quotes by William Gaddis
- What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
- 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…
- There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
- 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'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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle