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William H. Gass Quotes

1924–2017 United States

William H. Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor.

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When you are exiled from a space, you are exiled from a time.

I wonder how many men and women, kids and dogs, go through life in a state of modest misery; how much communal coldness there is, how much extinguished hope.

The Tunnel (1995)

So city a man he seldom freed his feet to feel the country.

The Tunnel (1995)

The devil does not sign contracts with just anyone. Upon the tens of millions, no judgment is pronounced. For them there is death, of course, but no doom. The trouble with history is its incorrigible and horrifying honesty. Only the truly doomed matter a damn to it. History is the abyss of the doomed.

The Tunnel (1995)

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