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1. "Art cannot save anybody from anything." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
2. "…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
3. "It is no wonder lesbians love women." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
4. "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." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
5. "The maimings of love are endlessly funny...." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
6. "There is no sincere stupidity that doesn't create, eventually, its own rationale, conduct, operating procedures, its own critical formulae whereby it may be, in all seriousness, discussed: witness the advertising business. Witness the best-seller list. Areas of idiocy within which various degrees of the spurious are compared." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
7. "A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an "idea" already formed. It is the poem or novel or story that quite precisely tells him what he didn't know he knew: he knows, that is, only in terms of his writing. This is, of course, simply another way of saying that literary composition is not the placing of a held idea into a waiting form." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
8. "I like to synthesize; I hate analysis. I don't like to take a subject and break it down into parts; I like to take disparate parts and put them all together and see what happens. I believe the old saw that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Of course, it may also be less. But it's the parts that interest me; it's not the whole." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
9. "Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?A: One wishes to create characters who will speak directly to the minds of comparative literature professors and intelligent book reviewers." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
10. "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." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
11. "Only death can cure the hip dilettante." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
12. "One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
13. "He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen." ~ Gilbert Sorrentino

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