{"author":"William Gaddis","author_id":"William+Gaddis","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["people","corrupt "],"id":50,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["justice","law","world "],"id":75436,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["despair","women"],"id":80237,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["justice","law"],"id":121731,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"What's an artist  but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["art","artist"],"id":145900,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["capitalism","humanity"],"id":191497,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers of dry husks of words which had been spoken and should be gone, the breaths exhaled not to be breathed again. But the words went on, and in those brief interruptions between cigarettes the exhalations were rebreathed.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["language","words"],"id":212216,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"-Money? In a voice that rustled.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["greed","money"],"id":259173,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.' William Gaddis, The Recognitions.","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["cleverness","honesty","integrity","life"],"id":276681,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"},{"text":"Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...","author":"William Gaddis","tags":["chaos","education","order"],"id":277763,"author_id":"William+Gaddis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}