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61

He made a virtue
 . . .’:Victor Bockris,
Warhol:The Biography
, p. 137.
62

Machines have less problems
 . . .’: Andy Warhol, ‘Pop Art: Cult of the Commonplace’,
TIME
, Vol. 81, No. 18, 3 May 1963.
62

B is anybody
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
, p. 5.
63

I guess I wanted to be
 . . .’: ibid., p. 22.
63
‘At the times in my life
 . . .’: ibid., p. 21.
65

I need B because
 . . .’ ibid
.,
p. 5.
65

finding it stunning and poignant
 . . .’: Stephen Shore,
The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–67
(Pavilion Books, 1995) p. 23.
66

He was a little bit franker
 . . .’: ibid., p. 130.
67

I didn’t get married
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
, p. 26.
68

My guess is that it helped
 . . .’: Stephen Shore,
The Velvet Years,
p. 22.
68

I don’t really feel
 . . .’: Gretchen Berg, ‘Andy Warhol: My True Story’, in Kenneth Goldsmith,
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Selected Andy Warhol Interviews 1962–1987
(Da Capo Press, 2004), p. 91.
68

Andy was the worst
 . . .’: Mary Woronov,
Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
(Serpent’s Tail, 2004), p. 121.
69

confidence in the stability
 . . .’: Rei Terada,‘Philosophical Self-Denial: Wittgenstein and the Fear of Public Language’,
Common Knowledge
, Vol. 8, Issue 3, Fall 2002, pp. 464–81.
71

pure Ondine
 . . .’:Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
POPism
(Penguin, 2007 [1980]), p. 98.
71

you
have
finished me off
 . . .’ Andy Warhol,
a, a novel
(Virgin, 2005 [1968]), p. 280.
72

The only way to talk
 . . .’: ibid., p. 121.
73

I’m making love to the tape recorder
 . . .’: ibid., p. 445.
73

No, oh Della, please
 . . .’: ibid., p. 44.
73

may I ask you
 . . .’: ibid., p. 53.
73

Don’t you hate me
 . . .’: ibid., p. 256.
73

Please shut it off
 . . .’: ibid., p. 264.
74

The dialogue was straight
 . . .’: Warhol,
The Andy Warhol Diaries
, p. 406.
74

How old are you
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
a: a novel
, p. 342.
74

SPF

Why do you avoid
 . . .’: ibid., p. 344.
76

Prussian tactics
 . . .’: ibid., p. 389.
76

Andy was the chief psychiatrist
 . . .’: Stephen Shore,
The Velvet Years
, p. 155.
77

something – work or a feeling
 . . .’: Lynne Tillman, ‘The Last Words are Andy Warhol’,
Grey Room
, Vol. 21, Fall 2005, p. 40.
77

Out of the garbage
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
a, a novel
, p. 451.
79

dominant, secure, self-confident
 . . .’:Valerie Solanas,
SCUM Manifesto
(Verso, 2004 [1971]), p. 70.
80

SCUM is against the entire system
 . . .’: ibid., p. 76.
81

Valerie Solanas was a loner
 . . .’: Avital Ronell, ibid., p. 9.
81

It is a product
 . . .’: Mary Harron, in Breanne Fahs,
Valerie Solanas
(The Feminist Press, 2014), p. 61.
81

SCUM Manifesto was
 . . .’: ibid., p. 71.
81

A true community
 . . .’: Valerie Solanas,
SCUM Manifesto
, p. 49.
82

to keep under your pillow
 . . .’: Breanne Fahs,
Valerie Solanas
, p. 99.
82

dead serious
 . . .’: ibid., p. 87.
82

Andy, will you
 . . .’: ibid., pp. 100–102.
85

Toad
 . . .’: ibid., pp. 121–2.
86

I felt horrible, horrible
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
POPism
, pp. 343–5.
88

Read my manifesto
 . . .’: Howard Smith,‘The Shot That Shattered The Velvet Underground’,
Village Voice
,Vol. XIII, No. 34, 6 June 1968.
88

I’m a writer
 . . .’:
Daily News
, 4 June 1968.
89

do it again
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
POPism
, p. 361.
92

glued-together
 . . .’: Andy Warhol, ibid., p. 358.
92

It’s too hard to care
 . . .’: Gretchen Berg, ‘Andy Warhol: My True Story’, in Kenneth Goldsmith,
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Selected Andy Warhol Interviews 1962–1987,
p. 96.
92

What I never
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
POPism
, p. 359.

CHAPTER 4: IN LOVING HIM

100

I’ve periodically
 . . .’: Cynthia Carr,
Fire in the Belly
, p. 133.
101

In my home one could not
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
(Vintage, 1991), p. 152.
103

testing testing testing
 . . .’: ibid., p. 6.
105

I did what I could
 . . .’: Tom Rauffenbart,
Rimbaud in New York
(Andrew Roth, 2004), p. 3.
106

There was no way
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz, Fales, Series 8A, ‘David Wojnarowicz Interviewed by Keith Davis’.
106

I could barely speak
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Close to the Knives
, p. 228.
106

My queerness
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz, Fales, Series 7A, Box 9, Folder 2, ‘Biographical Dateline’.
107

the sound of it
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Close to the Knives
, p. 105.
109

things I’d always
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz, ed. Amy Scholder,
In the Shadow of the American Dream
(Grove Press, 2000), p. 130.
109

I want to create
 . . .’: ibid., p. 219.
110

I found myself walking
 . . .’: ibid., p. 161.
110

Although the Rimbaud
 . . .’:Tom Rauffenbart,
Rimbaud in New York
, p. 3.
113

So simple, the appearance
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Close to the Knives
, p. 9.
114

the solitude of two persons
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz, unpublished journal entry, Fales, Series 1, Box 1, Folder 4, 26 September 1977.
117

Our society is
 . . .’: Valerie Solanas,
SCUM Manifesto
, p. 48.
118

a space at a libidinal
 . . .’: Samuel Delany,
The Motion of Light on Water
(Paladin, 1990), p. 202.
119

What has happened
 . . .’: Samuel Delany,
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
(New York University Press, 1999), p. 175.
120

Of course, not all
 . . .’: Maggie Nelson,
The Art of Cruelty
(W. W. Norton & Co., 2011), p. 183.
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