Gaddis, William

"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."

He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him.

She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband!

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.

 

"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."

 

 

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"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."

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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."

 

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"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."

 

"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."

Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.

                                                                                                             

 "The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants."

                                                                                       by Stephen King

 

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