Top 50 Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes
#1. It's always the same
you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same.
O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.
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#2. There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.
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#4. There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
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#5. Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.
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#6. It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony
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#7. Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
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#8. The bodies went back in the doors and bars and the heads in the windows. The cops drove away and Freddy and the guys went back into the Greeks and the street was quiet, just the sound of a tug and an occasional car; and even the blood couldn't be seen from a few feet away.
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#9. An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
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#11. I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do ... or I don't, but its peaceful ... only me ... no worries.
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#12. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
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#13. One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
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#14. This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.
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#15. My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
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#16. I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.
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#17. And he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.
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#18. Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet.
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#19. However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.
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#20. The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.
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#21. Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.
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#22. I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
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#23. It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul.
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#24. All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
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#25. Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.
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#26. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.
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#28. A guy needs something to give his life a reason or what's the point of living?
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#29. I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.
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#30. They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.
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#31. There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
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#32. But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love ... someone to hold on to ... someone
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#33. But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
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#34. Its hopeless. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. Theyll just do you in anyway. You cant depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.
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#35. But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
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#37. When you write about the people you hate the most, do it with love.
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#38. I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other.
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#39. And the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.
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#40. an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights.
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#41. I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.
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#42. I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.
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#43. Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone ...
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#44. I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something ... anything.
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#45. No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.
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#46. He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.
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#47. For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.
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#48. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.
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#49. And yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.
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#50. Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you're in a bag and you can't get out and somebody's always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.
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