Quotes by Clint Catalyst

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“The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins”

“YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.”

“There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.”

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“Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown. Thea Hillman...”

— Clint Catalyst, Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person

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“YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.”

— Clint Catalyst, Caresses Soft as Sandpaper

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“...feel the fierce way desiretourniquets itself around you andclingsClubland South of Market tweak-chic trannies powder their noses frombullet-shaped compacts and flick their forkedtongues like swi...”

— Clint Catalyst, Cottonmouth Kisses

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“There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.”

— Clint Catalyst, Cottonmouth Kisses

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“The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins”

— Clint Catalyst, Cottonmouth Kisses

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“I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock." Michelle Tea, "Paris: A”

— Clint Catalyst

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