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Dennis Cooper
“So I thought, you know, Teach me about death, Satan, I don’t care. And it was all about murder, which was great because when you’re not the one getting murdered, murder’s the ultimate interesting thing. I totally agree with that.”
Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man

“They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

Ryū Murakami
“that you don’t suffer because of someone else. There’s never anyone but”
Ryū Murakami, Tokyo Decadence: 15 Stories

Virginie Despentes
“Afrika'nın haritası nasıl o toprakların gerçekliğini yok sayarak sadece işgalcilerin kendi çıkarları doğrultusunda çizilmişse, anne-orospu ikiliği de kadın bedenine aynı şekilde cetvelle çizilmiş gibidir. "Doğal" bir süreçten değil politik bir iradeden kaynaklanır. Kadınlar, birbirleriyle bağdaşmayan iki seçenek arasında kalmaya mahkum edilmiştir. Erkeklerse başka türde bir ikilikte sıkışmışlardır: Onları azdıran şey bir sorun olarak kalmalıdır.”
Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

Megan Abbott
“Freud wrote about it a century ago. How we rummage through the armory of the past to retrieve the weapons needed to repeat, repeat, repeat past traumas. He said it was primitive, instinctual, destructive. Like a demon inside us all.
And now we know it's true. The brain itself is built with the battered beams of our early years. What the conscious mind forgets, the neurons remember.”
Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

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