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If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

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There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

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For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.

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I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

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I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

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You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

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I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

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I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

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Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

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Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 18th, 1975

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