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“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.”
― William H. Gass

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”
― Alain Robbe Grillet