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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Death
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Parasitic
Drives
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My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.
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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.
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I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
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You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.
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I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
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I feel that I'm solid at description.
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It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.
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Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of Losing My Religion. That's a landmark piece.
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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
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Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
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There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
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I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need
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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
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It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.
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The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
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I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
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I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.
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