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William H. Gass

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

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Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

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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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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

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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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Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

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I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.

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