"If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books."

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Source : William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

William H. Gass

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“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
“My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!”
“We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
“You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext
“Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.”
“Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.”
“We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.”
“You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.”

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