"I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer."

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Source : William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

William H. Gass

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“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
“Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.”

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“Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.”
“Golf is tougher than my first wife.”
“You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.”
“Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.”
“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”
“For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.”

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