William T. Vollmann - I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write a...

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I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.

William T. Vollmann

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Ich denke, dass wir alle als Menschen so begrenzt sind. Wenn wir über uns selbst schreiben wollen, ist das ziemlich einfach. Und wenn wir über unsere Freunde oder unsere Familien schreiben, können wir das tun. Aber wenn wir uns irgendwo außerhalb unserer persönlichen Erfahrung projizieren wollen, werden wir versagen, wenn wir diese Erfahrung nicht machen oder uns von anderen ausleihen.

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