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William T. Vollmann Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1959

Topics

Good Book Long Living Satisfied

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Style People Cool Look Looks Old

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

Matthew McConaughey

Door Free Feel You Say Living

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Change Wisdom Strong Situation Out

The ranking never lies.

Never Lies Ranking

Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.

Wife Thought End Ice Physics Hard

I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.

Time Police Gun Problem Look Go

I'm still doing something I love to do.

Love Doing Something Still I Love

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.

Life Balance Sun Me My Life Rise

I'm a real foodie.

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Time Art New York Destination Rest

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Congress Crime Greater Laws Citizens

I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.

Richard Norton Smith

Money Miami Old Republican Floor

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