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The Sluts

by Dennis Cooper

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T said: " sometimes it's disturbing but sometimes it's fucking tedious, so as an experience I would not recommend but as a concept, I'm in. ...more "

Apr 01, 2026 07:22PM · see review

“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
― Ariana Reines

tags: aesthetics, baudelaire, philip-guston, sentimentality

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“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

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