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

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Source : William T. Vollmann (1993). “The ice-shirt”, Penguin Group USA

William T. Vollmann

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“I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.”

Source : "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.
“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.”
“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Hisham Matar on Libya". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. October 25, 2011.
“The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject.Â For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern.Â It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who donâ€™t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.”
“For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding. Inasmuch as many of these sights appeared to be solid objects having impressive performance, they have become known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or, colloquially, flying saucers. Their positive identification is one of the major public scientific challenges of the era, with a significant number of these sights so far defying all reasonable efforts at classification.”
“I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.”
“You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.”

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