I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
--William Gaddis
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
--William Gaddis
I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.".
--William Gaddis
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
--William Gaddis
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.
--William Gaddis
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
--William Gaddis
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
--William Gaddis
Merry Christmas! the man threatened.
--William Gaddis
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.
--William Gaddis
Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.
--William Gaddis
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people.
--William Gaddis
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
--William Gaddis
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
--William Gaddis
There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.
--William Gaddis
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
--William Gaddis
We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.
--William Gaddis
Where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior?
--William Gaddis
Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.
--William Gaddis
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