"The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking."

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“Never despise meger beginings!”
“I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well”
“The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.”
“We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.”
“It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.”
“In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.”

Source : "Poppy Z. Brite: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.
“For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone.”
“Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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