"If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble."

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Source : William T. Vollmann (1994). “Butterfly Stories: A Novel”, p.3, Grove Press

William T. Vollmann

#Writing Quotes #Apology Quotes #Matter Quotes

“He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.”
“Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.”
“Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.”
“All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity”
“The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.”

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“O Sisters, if we would only comprehend the fact that while the Eucharistic Species remain within us, Jesus is there and working in us inseparably with the Father and the Holy Spirit and therefore the whole Holy Trinity is there.”
“When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.”
“In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.”

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