Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation... by William Gaddis | We Heart Quotes

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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

- William Gaddis

Other quotes by William Gaddis

Writers Books

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

- William Gaddis

Computer World

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

- William Gaddis

Work Want Man

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

- William Gaddis

Work

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

- William Gaddis

Nothing Work Writer

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

- William Gaddis

Justice World

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

- William Gaddis

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