"He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?"

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

William Gaddis

#Morning Quotes #Wish Quotes #Asking Quotes

“In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.”
“I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.”
“Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won't be consistent.”
“I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.”
“To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.”
“Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.”
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
“I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.”

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