William T. Vollmann Quotes

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

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DeathHappyExerciseYouI CanStop

We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.

Jim McKelvey

ImpossibleBelievePossibleThings

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Meg Rosoff

LifeHorrorUpLeadingAbsolutely

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

GoodCharacterDeathSufferingNever

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

Jeff Greene

American DreamPeopleAmericanDream

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

John Travolta

NightThinkSaturdayCareerKind

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

Mickey Rooney

WomenBeautifulMoneyManDating

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

Mick Fleetwood

DreamTrueLastComeInstrument

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Joyce Meyer

LoveGodPeopleRealTwoUp

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

Janet Yellen

BusinessTrainingMeWorldKnow

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

Jonathan Kellerman

CollaborationKeyNewStretchMuch

The future is today.

William Osler

FutureToday

There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.

Pierce Brosnan

BeautifulMenAngryChurchFierce

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