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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis
Biography
Author Profession:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Born:
December 29
, 1922
Died:
December 16
, 1998
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Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
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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.
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We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
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