"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."

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Source : Dennis Cooper (2007). “Guide”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Dennis Cooper

#Lonely Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!”
“Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.”

Source : "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.
“He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin. That about summed it up.”
“Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.”
“See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldnâ€™t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.”
“All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.”
“The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.”
“I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.”

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