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A Pale View of Hills
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The Buried Giant
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The only thing that changed was the book. One time it’d be Mickey Spillane, another time Kenzaburo Oe, another time Allen Ginsberg. Didn’t matter what it was, as long as it was a book. The students who drifted in and out of the place would ...more
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Lord Byron
“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise
Have a far deeper madness, and the glance
Of melancholy is a fearful gift;
What is it but the telescope of truth?
Which strips the distance of its fantasies,
And brings life near in utter nakedness,
Making the cold reality too real!”
George Gordon Byron

Karl Ove Knausgård
“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

Dennis Cooper
“When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there’s your proof.”
Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper
“Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.”
Dennis Cooper, Period

Sjón
“Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one’s name will sound in the language of light.”
Sjón

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