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Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism. — William T. Vollmann

The landscape around us is but a shadow of the landscape within us. — William T. Vollmann

This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost. — William T. Vollmann

Her breasts were big and sad like owls' eyes. — William T. Vollmann

When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were. — William T. Vollmann

Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older. — William T. Vollmann

I just don't wanna be an ostrich. That's all. — William T. Vollmann

We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of. — William T. Vollmann

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like. — William T. Vollmann

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. — William T. Vollmann

The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles ... — William T. Vollmann

Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work. — William T. Vollmann

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied. — William T. Vollmann

Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories. — William T. Vollmann

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible. — William T. Vollmann

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness. — William T. Vollmann

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it. — William T. Vollmann

I've come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power. — William T. Vollmann

Such mental haziness is in order, given the delightful vagueness of the terrain. — William T. Vollmann

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop. — William T. Vollmann

Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them. — William T. Vollmann

It will be fun to give some to prostitutes, — William T. Vollmann

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about. — William T. Vollmann

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions. — William T. Vollmann

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way. — William T. Vollmann

Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good. — William T. Vollmann

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other. — William T. Vollmann

Lecktrickery? grinned the fool boys, rubbing their rabbits' feet against the spell of these longest syllables in all Tarnation. — William T. Vollmann

Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information. — William T. Vollmann

There was no one as good as he at using the ovens of logic to bake agreeable results. — William T. Vollmann

The times are new, but the informers are old. — William T. Vollmann

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon. — William T. Vollmann

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living. — William T. Vollmann

We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art! — William T. Vollmann

Lovers may never meet again, but the ways of enemies oft do intersect: This proves some corollary about gravity. — William T. Vollmann

When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow. — William T. Vollmann

Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King. — William T. Vollmann

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead. — William T. Vollmann

I've never shot a civilian except when under orders. — William T. Vollmann

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?) — William T. Vollmann

My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. — William T. Vollmann

It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion. — William T. Vollmann

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful. — William T. Vollmann

Don't write for money. — William T. Vollmann