Blake Butler Quotes

#1. I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.

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#2. I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

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#3. I always want to sleep on the third date.

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#4. I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

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#5. I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

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#6. My love is inside me where my fat was.

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#7. There were seven men, but just one language. They also moved as one and ate one meal a day and slept in the same bed and knew the same women with whom they'd made the same child. They worked for the same firm as the father. They were the future.

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#8. Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

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#9. black beyond black

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#10. It is important not to show too many inches at once.

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#11. DAYS ARE WEEKS AND WEEKS ARE DAYS INSIDE YOU

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#12. Overhead the sky was melting, the cracked cream color rubbing off in cogs of brine.
The fields far ahead of me in endless pudding, studded here and there with what had been: homes and houses, hair and heirlooms, habits, hallways, hauntings, hope.

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