"Why bother? I was right all along: the……" — Poppy Z. Brite
"Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood."
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46 Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite
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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings…
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I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
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In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and…
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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic…
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Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight.…
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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that…
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places…
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to…
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Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
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