Blake Butler Quotes
The shrinking house was packed in angles of mushy arm meat and abdomens in such ways I couldn’t walk to see who was there or what food I would not eat. The sexdrives of the molding prior bodies of the dead refracted through me in the silence of the act of spreading of our silence outside the house. We clearly knew one day we’d have to all kill one another to become All, and why not begin now?
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
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Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.
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To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
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You live day by day. You can't build your life.
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Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.
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Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
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This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
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I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.
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The shrinking house was packed in angles of mushy arm meat and abdomens in such ways I couldn’t walk to see who was there or what food I would not eat. The sexdrives of the molding prior bodies of the dead refracted through me in the silence of the act of spreading of our silence outside the house. We clearly knew one day we’d have to all kill one another to become All, and why not begin now?
