“ Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to be any. ”
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“ The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
“ For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ”
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“ For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ”
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
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“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
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“ The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth. ”
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“ The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. ”
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“ The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. ”
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“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
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“ The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. ”
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“ The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. ”
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“ If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
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“ The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. ”
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“ For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ”
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“ The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. ”
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“ The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. ”
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“ The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. ”
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“ The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. ”
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“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
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“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
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“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
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