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Category: David Burr Gerrard

David Burr Gerrard

Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it’s managed and doesn’t become an addiction.

literary-fiction, thinking

David Burr Gerrard

Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.

heroes, monsters, writer-s

David Burr Gerrard

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

David Burr Gerrard

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

corpse, flesh, lover

David Burr Gerrard

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.

David Burr Gerrard

The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

literary-fiction, men

David Burr Gerrard

Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any case, all the ovens in the world can’t incinerate desire.

christianity, desire, gestapo

David Burr Gerrard

Don’t you wonder sometimes,” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?

David Burr Gerrard

He says that politics is a waste of time. Politics are? Politics is? Anyway, a waste of time. He says you should focus on your own sexual gratification.

politics, sexual-gratification

David Burr Gerrard

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

David Burr Gerrard

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

children, men, war

David Burr Gerrard

It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.

flesh, horny, war