Gilbert Sorrentino Quotes

• …and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Sweet, Cheer, Cat

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• They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.

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  Thinking, Giving, Desire

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.

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  Good Night, Sweet, Farewell

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• All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

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  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

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  Husband, Writing, Long

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”

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• The maimings of love are endlessly funny.

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  Gilbert Sorrentino (2012). “The Moon in Its Flight”, p.8, Coffee House Press

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• It is no wonder lesbians love women.

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  Wonder

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• Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

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  Art, World, Predator

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative qualities of actual things”, Small PressDistribution

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• Art cannot save anybody from anything.

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  Arte

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• Notable American Women nos presenta, con gran garbo y con espeluznantes detalles, un mundo cruelmente razonable dentro de las limitaciones casi religiosas de sus extrañas leyes y costumbres. Es un libro tan único como maravillosamente extraño.

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  Religious, Book, Unique

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• On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.

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  Struggle, Blue, Two

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