"I usually have poor to absent relations with……" — William H. Gass
"I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes."
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William H. Gass
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41 Quotes by William H. Gass
William H. Gass has 41 quotes on this site.
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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a…
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
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What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
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I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very…
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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and…
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Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should…
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages…
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More Absent Quotes
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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