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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.

Gilbert Sorrentino

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

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?

Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino

Born: April 27, 1929

Died: May 18, 2006 (aged 77)

Bio: Gilbert Sorrentino was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.

Known for:

Mulligan Stew (1979)
Aberration of Starlight (1980)
Imaginative qualities of actual things (1971)
Little Casino (2002)
The Abyss of Human Illusion

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