"The expression to write something down suggests a……" — William H. Gass
"The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it."
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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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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist…
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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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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 Descent Quotes
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of…
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species';…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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