"Maybe life is a process of trading hopes…" — William T. Vollmann
"Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories."
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William T. Vollmann
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26 Quotes by William T. Vollmann
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds…
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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…
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this…
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Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe…
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Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
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Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re…
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More Hopes Quotes
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one of 1,391 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the…
— Pam Brown
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend…
— King Albert II
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they…
— Abdallah II
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never…
— Lord Byron
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
— Angela Carter
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
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