"The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered."

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Source : Source: slushpile.net

Stephen Graham Jones

#People Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I'm going to do things when they are right for me.”

Source : "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.”
“Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 22, 2014
“The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.”
“I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.”
“Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.”
“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”

Source : Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.12, New Directions Publishing
“Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.”

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