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    “Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #2
    Denis Johnson
    “It wasn't my life she was after, it was more. She wanted to eat my heart, and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”
    Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

  • #3
    Kelly Braffet
    “It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.”
    Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

  • #4
    Dennis Cooper
    “Estoy poseído desde hace mucho por esta ansia de destripar de verdad a alguien que me pone cachondo. El chico holandés, en este caso, porque es el último ejemplo. La idea me hace sudar y temblar en este preciso momento. Brazos, piernas, por todas partes. Si él estuviera encerrado conmigo en este retrete, y si yo tuviera una navaja, supongo, o, aún mejor, garras, prescindiría de esa minúscula parte de mi cerebro que piensa que el asesinato es algo malo, signifique esto lo que signifique. Me pondría de pie, o trataría de ponerme de pie, y le haría picadillo. Pero como no tengo al chico, ni valor, ni arma, me quedo aquí, escribiendo, masturbándome. Que es lo que está haciendo mi mano izquierda mientras la otra escribe. Pero dentro de la cabeza tiene lugar la violencia más espectacular. Un chico estalla, se derrumba. Parece un tanto falsa, puesto que mis únicos modelos son películas gore, pero es increíblemente intensa.”
    Dennis Cooper, Frisk

  • #5
    Iain Banks
    “Oh dear. I do believe this is self-pity. I am imagining myself dramatically dead, tragically taken from you and even more lamentably forgotten. What dreadful clichés war and social strife reduces us to, and how powerful the effect must be, if even I am so infected. I think I must pull myself together.”
    Iain Banks, A Song of Stone

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

  • #7
    Henry Miller
    “This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse . . .

    To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”
    Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

  • #8
    Kathy Acker
    “Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves.”

    NYC in 1979”
    Kathy Acker

  • #9
    Boris Vian
    “Читатели бывают разные. Вот почему плохой литературы больше, чем хорошей.”
    Борис Виан

  • #10
    Franz Kafka
    “My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.”
    Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923

  • #11
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “A heart like an artichoke?” “Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.”
    Poppy Z. Brite, Drawing Blood: A Novel



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