Agapē Agape Quotes

“That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. ”
― William Gaddis, Agapē Agape

“all writing worth reading comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge”
― William Gaddis, Agapē Agape

“all writing worth reading
comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge”
― William Gaddis, Agapē Agape

“…the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight”
― William Gaddis, Agapē Agape

“It’s not about something Madam, it is something and goodbye to that hidden talent, those ghostly fingers hard as petrified wood look at mine, the all-or-none ranks of order in those dusty piano rolls become chips in gigantic computer systems whose operators are at the mercy of the systems they’ve designed, programmed stock trading and the market crashes, shoot down a dot on the wrong part of the screen that was an airliner full of pleasure seekers fleeing pain and this grand billion byte technology solving every conceivable problem becomes the heart of the problem itself good God it’s all, all, nuclear power going to change the world now what do we do with the nuclear waste, the waste, tiny felt-tipped wooden fingers turned to stone look at mine, keep my hands still here a few spots veins like Caesar crossing the Apennines didn’t he? Blood splashed here and there you’d never know, all look perfectly normal don’t I? sound perfectly normal don’t I?”
― William Gaddis, Agapē Agape

“The whole thing’s turned upside down, the kittens are bit and the houses are built without walls, you see?”
― William Gaddis, Agapē Agape