Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. -William Gaddis

 

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.


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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.

William Gaddis

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

William Gaddis

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

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

William Gaddis

. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .

William Gaddis