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Carpenter's Gothic QUOTES

Carpenter's Gothic QUOTES

1 " There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world... "

― William Gaddis , Carpenter's Gothic

2 " I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring. "

― William Gaddis , Carpenter's Gothic

3 " Stupidity’s the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. "

― William Gaddis , Carpenter's Gothic

4 " Free trade and Christianity, it's the German East Africa Company, it's French Equatorial Africa, it's the Belgians cutting down the Congo population from twenty million to ten in barely twenty years, by nineteen fourteen there's nothing left to plunder in Africa so they go to war with each other in Europe instead that's what the whole damned first world war was all ab... "

― William Gaddis , Carpenter's Gothic

5 " —Have you ever seen the sunrise here? and as though she'd answered she hadn't, as though she'd answered at all —especially in winter. You'll see it in winter, it's moved south where the river's its widest and it comes up so fast, it's as if it just wanted to prove the day, get it established so it can loiter through the rest of it, spend the first damned half of your life complicating things in that eagerness to take on everything and straighten all of it out and the second half cleaning up the mess you've made of the first, that's what they won't understand. Finally realize you can't leave things better than you found them the best you can do is try not to leave them any worse but they won't forgive you, get toward the end of the day like the sun going down in Key West if you've ever seen that? They're all down there for the sunset, watching it drop like a bucket of blood and clapping and cheering the instant it disappears, cheer you out the door and damned glad to see the last of you. "

― William Gaddis , Carpenter's Gothic