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Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.
— James Purdy
Why, if Daniel Haws was to take out his naked cock and shake it in your face, you'd die of apoplexy.
— James Purdy
I think America, really, is over.
— James Purdy
I don't think I'd like it if people liked me, I'd think that something had gone wrong.
— James Purdy
The to-dos were sordid rather than exciting, perhaps because nearly everybody was approaching middle age.
— James Purdy
Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
— James Purdy
Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.
— James Purdy
I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.
— James Purdy
He's America in action - opposed to quality.
— James Purdy
She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
— James Purdy
I have wrote my name in hell, Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.
— James Purdy
One fine day you've got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie.
— James Purdy
The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.
— James Purdy
Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.
— James Purdy
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
— James Purdy
You fucked-up hunk.
— James Purdy
Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.
— James Purdy
I've never been in fashion. Not at all.
— James Purdy
Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.
— James Purdy
The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.
— James Purdy
If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.
— James Purdy
The worse the author, the more he is known.
— James Purdy
If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell.
— James Purdy
Don't you believe in death?" I yelled at him. "No," he answers, "and I don't believe in time either ...
— James Purdy
There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.
— James Purdy
Most people have their buttons, Eustace continued.
— James Purdy
All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction.
— James Purdy
New York has collapsed.
— James Purdy