Dale Peck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes when we think weâ€™re protecting ourselves, weâ€™re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
-- Dale Peck

#Hurt #Thinking #People
Your past comes with you no matter where you go.
-- Dale Peck

#Past #Matter #Your Past
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
-- Dale Peck

#Hurt #Thinking #People
We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.
-- Dale Peck

#Fun #Kids #Gay
Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.
-- Dale Peck

#People #Drug #Hiv
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
-- Dale Peck

#Thinking #Important #Novelists
Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
-- Dale Peck

#Writing #Fiction #Writing Fiction
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
-- Dale Peck

#Contemporary Fiction #Easy #Shallow
Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.
-- Dale Peck

#New York #Book #Writing
One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
-- Dale Peck

#Dream #Revenge #Father
It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.
-- Dale Peck

#Nice #Thinking #Giving
AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.
-- Dale Peck

#People #Hiv #Disease
Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.
-- Dale Peck

#Powerful #Gay #Rights
Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had to fight to keep.
-- Dale Peck

#Country #Taken #Fighting
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense. You want to live with somebody, then live with somebody. All that other stuff is just a way for the state monitoring and codifying certain activities and ostracizing others.
-- Dale Peck

#Thinking #Giving #Who Cares
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.
-- Dale Peck

#Two #Giving #Settling
Losing my virginity was very boring.
-- Dale Peck

#Losing #Boring #Virginity
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
-- Dale Peck

#Sex #Safe #Lost
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
-- Dale Peck

#Art #Thinking #Upset

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