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I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

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Hubert Selby, Jr.
Age: 75 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 23
Died: 2004
Died: April 26
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Passings
Passing
Destroy
Simply
Opportunity
Requiem
Dream
Mourn
Never
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But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
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It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.
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...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.
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I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.
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I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.
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We all need a meaning to our life.
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But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
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There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.
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I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.
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...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.
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An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
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