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For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
When you write about the people you hate the most, do it with love.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something ... anything.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone ...
— Hubert Selby Jr.
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.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
— David Selby
One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
It/ll be better tomorrow...
— Hubert Selby Jr.
I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
— Alyce Cornyn-Selby
I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
And yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
I never found it frustrating not speaking.
— David Selby
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
— David Selby
This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man.
— Adrian Selby
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.
— Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
— David Selby
No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
— David Selby
A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
— Alyce Cornyn-Selby
The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
— Alyce Cornyn-Selby
