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Losing my virginity was very boring.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Boring
Losing
Virginity
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Your past comes with you no matter where you go.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Matter
Past
Your Past
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Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Fiction
Writing
Writing Fiction
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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Important
Novelists
Thinking
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I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Lost
Safe
Sex
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Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Hurt
People
Thinking
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Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Art
Thinking
Upset
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I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Giving
Settling
Two
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Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.
Dale Peck / Novelist
New York
Book
Writing
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One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Dream
Father
Revenge
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Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Contemporary Fiction
Easy
Shallow
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Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Drug
Hiv
People
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AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Disease
Hiv
People
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It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Giving
Nice
Thinking
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We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Kids
Fun
Gay
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Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense. You want to live with somebody, then live with somebody. All that other stuff is just a way for the state monitoring and codifying certain activities and ostracizing others.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Giving
Thinking
Who Cares
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Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had to fight to keep.
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Country
Fighting
Taken
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Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.
Dale Peck / Novelist
Gay
Powerful
Rights
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