"Lindy Hoppers never die - they just swing out."

-- Frankie Manning

“Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored,”
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”

Source : Dennis Cooper (2007). “Guide”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.”
“Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.”
“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”
“If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.”
“A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.”
“You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.”

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