"...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having."

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

William Gaddis

#World Quotes #Memento Quotes #This World Quotes

“I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.”
“I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.”

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“She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl”
“Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.â€¨”
“I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.”
“The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.”
“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”
“Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.”

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