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I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
William H. Gass
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William H. Gass
Age: 93 †
Born: 1924
Born: July 30
Died: 2017
Died: December 6
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William Howard Gass
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.
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