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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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Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will…
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The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War…
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Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War…
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