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Top 25 Dennis Cooper Quotes (2025 Update)

Dennis Cooper Quote: “Don’t stop believing in me, Brian. It was just a bad day.”

1. “Don’t stop believing in me, Brian. It was just a bad day.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”

2. “Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that’s what most people want. In fact, that’s probably why we don’t kill one another all the time. Everyone’s just a little too lonely to risk it.”

3. “I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that’s what most people want. In fact, that’s probably why we don’t kill one another all the time. Everyone’s just a little too lonely to risk it.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “Human bodies are such garbage bags.”

4. “Human bodies are such garbage bags.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “That’s why I’m happy I’m famous for what I’m so famous for. Being gorgeous, I mean. It helps me believe in myself and not worry that I’m just a bunch of blue tubes inside a skin wrapper, which is what everyone actually is.”

5. “That’s why I’m happy I’m famous for what I’m so famous for. Being gorgeous, I mean. It helps me believe in myself and not worry that I’m just a bunch of blue tubes inside a skin wrapper, which is what everyone actually is.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn’t actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”

6. “Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn’t actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “So I thought, you know, Teach me about death, Satan, I don’t care. And it was all about murder, which was great because when you’re not the one getting murdered, murder’s the ultimate interesting thing. I totally agree with that.”

7. “So I thought, you know, Teach me about death, Satan, I don’t care. And it was all about murder, which was great because when you’re not the one getting murdered, murder’s the ultimate interesting thing. I totally agree with that.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I’ve studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.”

8. “I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I’ve studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “I like flat black. It doesn’t try to explain anything, and it’s been hip since before I was born, I guess.”

9. “I like flat black. It doesn’t try to explain anything, and it’s been hip since before I was born, I guess.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.”

10. “When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “Cult writer. It’s a weird term because it’s complimentary but condescending at the same time.”

11. “Cult writer. It’s a weird term because it’s complimentary but condescending at the same time.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in front of his own projector, then stands there, oblivious to the snoring around him.”

12. “But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in front of his own projector, then stands there, oblivious to the snoring around him.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “I’m just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.”

13. “I’m just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea’s reconvening halves?”

14. “Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea’s reconvening halves?”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.”

15. “To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they’re going to be. They’re fluid messes until I’ve done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”

16. “My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they’re going to be. They’re fluid messes until I’ve done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “But Henry didn’t care how sexily I described the idea of him dead. He just listened and nodded like I was giving him directions to the next town.”

17. “But Henry didn’t care how sexily I described the idea of him dead. He just listened and nodded like I was giving him directions to the next town.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “Can you be more clear?” No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.”

18. “Can you be more clear?” No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.”

20. “Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.”

21. “When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “Why do you think UFOs never land? Why don’t ghosts just say hello?”

22. “Why do you think UFOs never land? Why don’t ghosts just say hello?”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don’t know how to give it decent subtitles yet.”

23. “I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don’t know how to give it decent subtitles yet.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “He still looked cute enough to justify what was starting to happen, whatever that was.”

24. “He still looked cute enough to justify what was starting to happen, whatever that was.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they’re trying hard.”

25. “The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they’re trying hard.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or from the books I read incessantly. It was like I’d found myself, and I was someone who had never had the things I really wanted, plainly never would, and whom no one would fully comprehend.”

26. “I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or from the books I read incessantly. It was like I’d found myself, and I was someone who had never had the things I really wanted, plainly never would, and whom no one would fully comprehend.”

— Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper Quote: “I’m a nice person. I’m just stupid to want people to like me.”

27. “I’m a nice person. I’m just stupid to want people to like me.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I’ve known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse’s baby picture.”

28. “To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I’ve known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse’s baby picture.”

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Dennis Cooper Quote: “I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just when I socialized with other people but when I even thought of other people, which, put together, constituted almost always. That my wish had been completely understanding because it knew me, unlike my friends.”

29. “I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just when I socialized with other people but when I even thought of other people, which, put together, constituted almost always. That my wish had been completely understanding because it knew me, unlike my friends.”

— Dennis Cooper

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