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Caris O'Malley

The O'Malley bows to no one! But he humbly thanks:

-his lovely and patient family for encouraging his writing habit.

-the committee that created his current website.

Caris O'Malley on his process: "Well, there's plenty of time for research. But facts get in the way of my fiction. I need my precious lies."


“So what do you do?' she asked. 'I sneak around at night, well, usually at night, and gather coins out of fountains', I said slowly, watching her face for judgement. She burst into laughter. 'Like spare change? You collect people's wishes? And you spend them on yourself?' 'They're not wishes' I said. 'They lose their symbolism once they hit corporate water. At that time they either become extra income for people who don't need it, or they can help me get along in the world.”
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“For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of an old book.”
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“Fuck you, Mr. Beatty!”
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“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”
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“What the fuck did you do to my hamster?!”
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“You are surprisingly immature. I can't ever understand how you resort to giggling at the slightest provocation. You, I repeat, are immature.”
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“Can we really put Ben (hereby representing all men) on such a pedestal? Having tamed those beasts set aside for him, is it not like Ben to seek out that which has historically (regardless of how brief a history) been set aside for women? Woolf criticizes the masculine in her work with the repetition of the phrases uttered by that inconsiderate individual who makes the claim that women cannot paint or write. Is Ben not committing the same crime as that unfortunate character?In stating "[b]etter like this, bitch," Ben employs a word that I would consider to be demasculinizing, rather than feminine. In using the word bitch, he seizes this scholarly investigation and, if you will, pisses on it, claiming it as his own. His statement is an outright challenge. This is a book I stole from women, and I urinated on it. You'd better appreciate my conquest or I will also urinate on you.”
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“I don't ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again.”
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“Who the shit is Otis?”
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“I am the O'Malley and I will not take your shit.”
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