Quotes About Gaddis

all writing worth reading comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge

fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius);

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.

And someone said, —Nothing queer about Carruthers . . . to conclude, once for all, the story of that subaltern and his mare.

They also reflect, at this relatively early stage in Kennan's career, one of his most persistent paradoxes: that he understood the Soviet Union far better than he did the United States.

It's long been assumed that Machiavelli is in Hell and -worse- content to be there