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Poppy Z. Brite Quotes


I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras. Poppy Z. Brite Food 81
Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness. Poppy Z. Brite Night 81
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. Poppy Z. Brite Food 78
There were books about how to be gay hed seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there werent any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up. Poppy Z. Brite Unrequited love 78
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. Poppy Z. Brite Allowed 77
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. Poppy Z. Brite Certain 76
He has le coeur comme un artichaud. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. A heart like an artichoke Oui. He has a leaf for everyone but makes a meal for no one. Poppy Z. Brite Food 73
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. Poppy Z. Brite Creole 70
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. Poppy Z. Brite Dad 66
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. Poppy Z. Brite Book 63
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! Poppy Z. Brite Funny 57
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. Poppy Z. Brite Sleep 42
Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. Poppy Z. Brite Celebrities 41
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. Poppy Z. Brite Body 36
When you have too much faith in something its bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way all the world is a vampire. Poppy Z. Brite Vampire 36
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Poppy Z. Brite Economics 30
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. Poppy Z. Brite Food 27
I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. ... Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me anyway. It lasts so long and four A.M.knows all my secrets. Poppy Z. Brite Loneliness 25

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