4 Quotes & Sayings By Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper is a writer, musician, and film maker. He is the author of two collections of short stories, "The Thin Place" and his latest novel, "The Book of Love". He has written for The Believer, ZYZZYVA, Taddle Creek Press, McSweeney's Quarterly, The Paris Review, The Believer Magazine, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has been translated into seven languages.

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When I started writing I was a sick teenagedfuck inside who partlythought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a bodydoomed to communicatewith Satan who was us-ing my sickness as hishome away from home, and there’s your proof. Dennis Cooper
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Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever. Dennis Cooper
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Human bodies are such garbage bags. Dennis Cooper