Top 70 Poppy Z. Brite Quotes (2024 Update)
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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.”

51. “Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “It was as if America had begun the decade of the eighties by shattering some great cosmic mirror, except that the seven years of bad luck hadn’t ended yet. The wizened, evil-faced dybbuk in the White House had been as alien a being as Trevor could imagine, a shriveled yet hideously animated puppet thrust into power by the same shadowy forces that had controlled the world since Trevor was five, forces he could not control, could barely see or begin to understand.”

52. “It was as if America had begun the decade of the eighties by shattering some great cosmic mirror, except that the seven years of bad luck hadn’t ended yet. The wizened, evil-faced dybbuk in the White House had been as alien a being as Trevor could imagine, a shriveled yet hideously animated puppet thrust into power by the same shadowy forces that had controlled the world since Trevor was five, forces he could not control, could barely see or begin to understand.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn’t read the one until after I’d written the other.”

53. “In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn’t read the one until after I’d written the other.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “And I can’t think of a reason I’d ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn’t want to publish something that I didn’t like enough to put my name on it.”

54. “And I can’t think of a reason I’d ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn’t want to publish something that I didn’t like enough to put my name on it.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “I’d much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.”

55. “I’d much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Rickey wondered briefly who they were before the lovely floaty feeling wiped away his curiosity. “You got a concussion and a broken ankle, but you’re gonna be fine.”

56. “Rickey wondered briefly who they were before the lovely floaty feeling wiped away his curiosity. “You got a concussion and a broken ankle, but you’re gonna be fine.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Stay with me.’ His eyes shone. ‘Play with me.”

57. “Stay with me.’ His eyes shone. ‘Play with me.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.”

58. “Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “I’d say to myself, Andrew Compton, you’ve sucked their cold mouths and cocks; you’ve licked their blood from your hands by the bucketful; you’ve boiled the flesh off their skulls, then used the same pot to make curry. Why not just fry up a few tender bits and see what it’s like – perhaps with a nice egg?”

59. “I’d say to myself, Andrew Compton, you’ve sucked their cold mouths and cocks; you’ve licked their blood from your hands by the bucketful; you’ve boiled the flesh off their skulls, then used the same pot to make curry. Why not just fry up a few tender bits and see what it’s like – perhaps with a nice egg?”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Magic happens when and where it wants to.”

60. “Magic happens when and where it wants to.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn’t sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?”

61. “So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn’t sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Jay stopped and unlocked an iron gate with finals wrought in the shape of pineapples.”

62. “Jay stopped and unlocked an iron gate with finals wrought in the shape of pineapples.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Atheists loved to use that term to describe some shadowy force that somehow controlled human destiny, but what the hell did they think the universe was?”

63. “Atheists loved to use that term to describe some shadowy force that somehow controlled human destiny, but what the hell did they think the universe was?”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “They may hate us for sucking cock, but at least they can’t accuse of making more little cocksuckers.”

64. “They may hate us for sucking cock, but at least they can’t accuse of making more little cocksuckers.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “I’m Lush Rimbaud, and I refuse to shut up or die.”

65. “I’m Lush Rimbaud, and I refuse to shut up or die.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “There was a chill in the air, to be sure, a damp cool vapour drifting round corners and rising from drains. But I had just come from London, where November vapours were like ill-intentioned hands sliding beneath your collar to encircle your coat-chafed, chicken-skinned throat, where November winds cut more deeply than my stolen scalpel ever did.”

66. “There was a chill in the air, to be sure, a damp cool vapour drifting round corners and rising from drains. But I had just come from London, where November vapours were like ill-intentioned hands sliding beneath your collar to encircle your coat-chafed, chicken-skinned throat, where November winds cut more deeply than my stolen scalpel ever did.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “That chap looks as if he ate a girl’s kidney last night.”

67. “That chap looks as if he ate a girl’s kidney last night.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.”

68. “I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Like someone trying to gargle boiling water.”

69. “Like someone trying to gargle boiling water.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.”

70. “I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.”

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Poppy Z. Brite Quote: “Any time someone is afraid of you, you can use it to your own advantage.”

71. “Any time someone is afraid of you, you can use it to your own advantage.”

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