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The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann 184 Darkness Form Writing

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Mortality Music Time

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Dreams

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Death Living

He was really quite addicted to her face, and yet for the longest time he could not remember it at all, it being so much brighter than sunlight on a pool of water that he could only recall that blinding brightness; then after awhile, since she refused to give him her photograph, he began to practice looking away for a moment when he was still with her, striving to uphold in his inner vision what he had just seen (her pale, serious, smooth and slender face, oh, her dark hair, her dark hair), so that after immense effort he began to retain something of her likeness although the likeness was necessarily softened by his fallibility into a grainy, washed-out photograph of some bygone court beauty, the hair a solid mass of black except for parallel streaks of sunlight as distinct as the tines of a comb, the hand-tinted costume sweetly faded, the eyes looking sadly, gently through him, the entire image cob-webbed by a sheet of semitranslucent Thai paper whose white fibers twisted in the lacquered space between her and him like gorgeous worms; in other words, she remained eternally elsewhere.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Love Memory Photography

Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he should not love her, for she had been someone else whom he was supposed to love differently. -What is loneliness? Does the lonely space between two rocks vanish when spanned by a spider web?

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William T. Vollmann Loneliness Love

Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Poverty

But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left alone to eat and breed and eat and breed, just like us.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Human Nature Perspective

In the preface of The Rifles Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing. Barnabas PiryuaqWell, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created. Jan Welzi 1933.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Animal Rights Environment Hunters Native Americans Slaughter Violence

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Death Violence

But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.

~ William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann Beauty Death Secrets Signs Truth
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