Dennis Cooper Quotes

#1. Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.

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#2. When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof.

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#3. I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

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#4. Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.

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#5. I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

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#6. Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

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#7. I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.

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#8. Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

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#9. I like flat black. It doesn't try to explain anything, and it's been hip since before I was born, I guess.

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#10. Human bodies are such garbage bags.

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#11. Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea's reconvening halves?

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#12. Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.

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#13. My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

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