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"it took a lil bit to pick up for me but i think it's got momentum for me now. also, she's so me (despite the part where she doesn't necessarily like the experimental. i cannot deny my affinity and love for the experimental, the hybrid, and the atypical)" — Jan 23, 2023 12:48PM
"it took a lil bit to pick up for me but i think it's got momentum for me now. also, she's so me (despite the part where she doesn't necessarily like the experimental. i cannot deny my affinity and love for the experimental, the hybrid, and the atypical)" — Jan 23, 2023 12:48PM

“Oderint dum metuant.
"Let them hate me, as long as they fear me.”
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"Let them hate me, as long as they fear me.”
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“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena

“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”
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“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Piece and Piece and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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