"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."

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Source : "POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.

Poppy Z. Brite

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“Delusive hope still points to distant good.”
“Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.”
“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”
“Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.”
“I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.”
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”
“If youâ€™re really listening, if youâ€™re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.”

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