The Marbled Swarm Quotes

“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea’s reconvening halves?”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I’ve known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse’s baby picture.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“I'd planned to kill the almost-hour fingering some phone apps whose offbeat missions and designy logos had put the make on my contracted pupils. Still, as coke can't seem to help but use its hopheads to accomplish, I found a quiet study of these apps beyond me, and soon enough my antsy friends and I were in a huddle, having misconstrued our need to chatter as the impetus for lectures and confused one another for captivated listeners at whom we could not spew enough.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“In my world, speech, and thought itself perhaps, are annotated into gasps and grrs and wows except in cases of emergency.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“the strange propriety that puts the Japanese among the earth’s most civilized degenerates”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“not yet knowing myself in the slightest, I’d done nothing but convince myself I was in love with one cute, suicidal basket case after another.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“I often half wonder why it is that life, or mine at least, seems less to change from day to day than to be solved like an equation.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“a handful of films that the passage of time has revised from daring cinematic gestures to unwatchable displays of self-indulgence”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm