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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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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
— Don Meyer
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Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of…
— Leon Battista Alberti
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32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of…
— Foxy Brown
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To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.
— Unknown Author
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What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words,…
— Akira Kurosawa
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If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you…
— Timothy Keller
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If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer…
— Matt Chandler
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I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan,…
— Michael Gove
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"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract…
— David Starr Jordan
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The more you subtract, the more you add,
— Jean Kilbourne
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