William T. Vollmann Quotes
Top 44 wise famous quotes and sayings by William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann Famous Quotes & Sayings
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This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost.
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
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.
We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of.
Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.
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.
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.
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them.
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.
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.
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.
Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.
Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.
Lecktrickery? grinned the fool boys, rubbing their rabbits' feet against the spell of these longest syllables in all Tarnation.
The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
Lovers may never meet again, but the ways of enemies oft do intersect: This proves some corollary about gravity.
When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow.
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.
(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.