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45 quotes by William T. Vollmann

William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Europe Central. He lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife and daughter.
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I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the... →

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A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of... →

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I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows.... →

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My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more... →

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The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I thought, 'This is very, very slow.' I noticed... →

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Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own... →

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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.

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After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place.... →

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As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies... →

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As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the... →

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Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And... →

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When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack... →

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Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person... →

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