Hubert Selby, Jr. Quotes - Page 2

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• ... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

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  Dying, Way, Hours

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• The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.

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  Dream, Memories, Blue

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• I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.

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  Creative, Trying, Ability

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• I just don't seem to be capable of believing in evil as some separate, distinct power within itself. I guess I'm just not a Southern Baptist or a Fundamentalist. I just don't seem to be capable of believing in it myself, somehow. I don't . . . I can't conceive from my experience how this force of evil can exist without the force of love being right there.

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  Believe, Love Is, Evil

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• There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.

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  Country, Hate, Writing

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• ...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.

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  Dream, Believe, Night

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• However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

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  May, Return, Committed

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• I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

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  Disappointment, Writing, Stuff

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• Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

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• One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

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  Writing, Years, People

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• He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

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  Requiem For A Dream, Knows

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• I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

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  Writing, People, I Realized

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Dec 15, 2016

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• They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.

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  Oysters, Knowing, Feelings

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• I don't know how to make the critics happy!

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  Critics

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• I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

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  Serious, Trouble

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• We all need a meaning to our life.

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• When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being. See, I don't think we were created with some pain and misery and whatever. I think we were created by whatever this thing is, when it extended itself, and, here we are. But I pile on so many misconceptions that I end up uncomfortable in my own skin.

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  Pain, Thinking, Unhappy

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• I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

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  Problem, Presenting

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• I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

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  Writing, Mean, Artist

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• Be careful of things like alcohol and drugs.

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  Alcohol, Drug, Be Careful

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• I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

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  Moving, Thinking, Like You

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• As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".

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  Tao

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• People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings.

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  Reading, People

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• I certainly do attempt to live according to spiritual principles. That's always the foundation of each and every day. I have experienced some things in my life that just force me to believe in some sort of power. A creative . . . creative power source; however you want to phrase it. I certainly have experienced that presence. And I have experienced what I consider the basic, what we would call love and concern.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Creative

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• One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.

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