33 Quotes by Dennis Cooper

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    That’s why I’m happy I’m famous for what I’m so famous for. Being gorgeous, I mean. It helps me believe in myself and not worry that I’m just a bunch of blue tubes inside a skin wrapper, which is what everyone actually is.

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    To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.

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    He still looked cute enough to justify what was starting to happen, whatever that was.

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    To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I’ve known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse’s baby picture.

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    But Henry didn’t care how sexily I described the idea of him dead. He just listened and nodded like I was giving him directions to the next town.

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    Can you be more clear?” No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.

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