Top 16 The Recognitions Gaddis Quotes

#1. Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

William Gaddis

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#2. Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

Kim Harrison

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#3. I, it's just, listen, criticism? It's the most important art now, it's the one we need most now. Criticism is the art we need most today. But not, don't you see? not the "if I'd done it myself . . ." Yes, a, a disciplined nostalgia, disciplined recognitions

William Gaddis

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#4. I wanna kiss you in Paris
I wanna hold your hand in Rome

Madonna Ciccone

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#5. Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

Simone De Beauvoir

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#6. But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.

Charles Dickens

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#7. Their culture is narrowly interbred, and some personal relations border on the incestuous, so they float each other's boat and write almost identical muck-raking stories. Everyone in China knows why they are, and their China-bashing is green-lighting all of us to join the onslaught.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

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#8. Her smile was like laughter to me - it bubbled in like champagne.

Atticus

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#9. God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

Elisabeth Elliot

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#10. Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29 ... What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?" questions? Worried? What about? Thirty-eight, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!

Kate Beckinsale

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#11. I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

William Gaddis

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#12. In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

Adam Braun

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#13. And if it can't be fun, what's the point?

Donald J. Trump

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#14. I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

Moby

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#15. Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.

Pat Nixon

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#16. Let your poetry be the light and see the true beauty of your words bloom into life, love, and inspiration.

Delano Johnson

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