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Peter Sotos

"I'm not trying to do conceptual art."

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"I'm not trying to do conceptual art."

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Aberjhani

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

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Aberjhani

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

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Aberjhani

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

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Aberjhani

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

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Aberjhani

"Music gives life to the soul."

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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."
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"I don't publish the books to make money, not at all."
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"Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies."
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"If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas."
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"I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much."
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"In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing."
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"Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past."
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"And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away."
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"But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print."
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"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."
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