"Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?"

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Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”

William Gaddis

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“My heart is like a singing bird.”
“Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.”
“I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.”
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.”
“People can say what they want but it doesn't stop me from doing what I'm crazy about doing.”
“there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.”

Source : "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Profession of Poetry" (p. 165), 1980.
“She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.”

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