Brent Runyon Quotes

#1. The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

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#2. He says everything like it happened to someone else.

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#3. Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

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#4. You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my head. You'll never get into my castle. You'll never even get past the gate.

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#5. So what does that make you think about God?
I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

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#6. I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

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#7. I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

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#8. Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

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#9. I write in a rush of memory.

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#10. I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, "The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home". It does, doesn't it?

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