Transgressive Literature Quotes

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Chuck Palahniuk
“That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community
Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO
Chuck Palahniuk

Brandon Tietz
“A woman can be an object if that's her objective.”
Brandon Tietz

Dennis Cooper
“I [...] squarely and enthusiastically recommend ['Hey Boy' by A. W. W. Bremont][...]. [...][T]he start of a no doubt stellar oeuvre to come.”
Dennis Cooper

Neda Aria
“In a family not much different from yours
They cover every girl born and unborn
The girl shan’t talk
Shan’t run, shan’t dream
The girl shan’t expect, shan’t even exist”
Neda Aria, Divercity: A Poetry Collection : on peace, love and empathy

Neda Aria
“How sure are you that it is your decision? You’re conditioned to think you need to have a child to be happy. But my dear, what if you don’t? Would you feel incomplete?”
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

Fiona Helmsley
“A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.”
Fiona Helmsley, My Body Would Be the Kindest of Strangers

Gary J.  Shipley
“Hey Boy [by A.W.W. Bremont] is a fever dream of a novel of a sentence. Loopy, depraved, literate in its illiteracies, fiercely cruel and facile, wonderfully unhinged . Reads like Andrew Cunanan's lobotomized nightmares filtered through Delany's Hogg.

- Gary J. Shipley”
Gary J. Shipley

Dennis Cooper
“I [...] squarely and enthusiastically recommend ['Hey Boy' by A.W.W. Bremont][...]. [...][T]he start of a no doubt stellar oeuvre to come.”
Dennis Cooper

Gary J.  Shipley
“Hey Boy' [by A. W. W. Bremont] is a fever dream of a novel of a sentence. Loopy, depraved, literate in its illiteracies, fiercely cruel and facile, wonderfully unhinged. Reads like Andrew Cunanan's lobotomized nightmares filtered through Delany's 'Hogg'.”
Gary J. Shipley

Neda Aria
“Women like her caused declination of social values.”
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

Neda Aria
“I am the revolution. I am a social change!”
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

Neda Aria
“You are not a reproductive machine. Do you get it? I saved you from slavery.”
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

Neda Aria
“I lost everything. My social value, my child, and my husband.”
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

Neda Aria
“To all ignorant women who see their worth in their bodies. In having a husband. In the number of the children they bear. To Mandana Saberi a woman who sacrificed her meaningful being for the sake of a fake social value.”
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

Brian Spellman
“Cigars for everybody. It's a transgender!”
Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

Christopher J. Stockwell
“It's fortunate I have such a huge chip on my shoulder. I'm pretty sure it's the only thing keeping my feet on the ground.”
Christopher J. Stockwell