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Rick Moody

Cool is spent. Cool is empty....

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

I believe that God locates hi...

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

I believe in the absolute and...

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

There’s something really rich...

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

I think people on antidepressa...

I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

The Great Recession is not ima...

The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

There's something really rich ...

There's something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

People tend to be scared of wh...

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. ...

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

Have I mentioned that I expect...

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

God howls with laughter at ear...

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

I am excited by... the new nov...

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

My suspicion is that this is a...

My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in pain, and so will be vulnerable to anyone or anything that seems to promise permanent avoidance.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

Sadness is simply something to...

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

Capitalism, in the realm of se...

Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

I read a lot of 'The Canterbu...

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

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Rick Moody

People know that pain is part ...

People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.

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Rick Moody

When prose gets too stylized a...

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

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Rick Moody

The point is to balance on the...

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Rick Moody 52 quotes
Rick Moody

What genre it falls under is o...

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

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