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"the horrifically sensual scene of the preacher dropping his rosary and the worshippers lunging for the beads…….did Wilde read this" — Oct 17, 2026 09:20PM
"the horrifically sensual scene of the preacher dropping his rosary and the worshippers lunging for the beads…….did Wilde read this" — Oct 17, 2026 09:20PM
On some level I knew horror wasn’t just about monsters doing bad things. It’s also about doing gender badly. It’s about the threat and the thrill of getting it wrong.
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
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