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the sophisticated palates of prosperous out of town visitors

[...] Where plaintiff further alleges that these impediments to its removal were swept away by the appeals court decision reversing this major provision in Szyrk, supra, defendant’s disclaimer on grounds of the lack of a demolition permit required by municipal ordinance for such a procedure which, …

—p.257 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
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all Broadway wants is tits and ass

—Because it’s never been performed that’s how come! Nobody’s ever seen it performed, a serious play of ideas like this one you expect to see it in lights on Broadway? All Broadway wants is tits and ass, a chorus line of stupid self indulgent idiots cavorting around the stage singing about tits and …

—p.87 by William Gaddis
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the only damn language they understand

—You want to sue them for damages, that’s money isn’t it?

—Because that’s the only damn language they understand! Isn’t that what you just said? But stealing a whole world somebody’s created and turning it into a hogpen just because there’s money in hogs? Steal poetry what do you sue them for, p…

—p.79 by William Gaddis
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the rest of these idiotic soap operas

—No stop it Christina, that wasn’t it at all and you know it. If you think it wasn’t serious do you know they even came in and asked if I wanted a summary of what was going to happen on If the World Turns and the rest of these idiotic soap operas, will kindly old Apple Annie die of a brain tumor? w…

—p.52 by William Gaddis
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not to send peace, but a sword

In reaching these conclusions, the court acts from the conviction that risk of ridicule, of attracting defamatory attentions from his colleagues and even raucous demonstrations by an outraged public have ever been and remain the foreseeable lot of the serious artist, recalling among the most egregi…

—p.37 by William Gaddis