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William T. Vollmann has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the…
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It will be fun to give some to prostitutes,
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I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job.…
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Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.
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Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?
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I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and…
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If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a…
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So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still…
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…
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Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.
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Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue…
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Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
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As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind…
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
— Darryl Sutter
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A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
— Harold Laski
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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
— Barbara Hershey
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
— Abraham Flexner
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed…
— Jonathan Ive
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Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as…
— Blake Griffin
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Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,…
— Mark Twain
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I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help…
— Paul Newman
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
— Shelley Morrison
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