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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
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Parasitic
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I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.
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I was a very scared child.
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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
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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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Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
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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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There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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I definitely don't take any of intrusions in my private life personally. You learn how to have a sense of humor pretty quickly. I honestly don't keep up on it unless it's something that would hurt someone else. I can take care of myself, that's not the problem. But it's just not fair to bring anyone else into the picture.
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We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.
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I had been going out to Orient for several years.
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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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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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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 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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Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
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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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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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