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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.

Bret Easton Ellis

You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Criticism Hobbies Writing
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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Choices Decade Necessarily Thinking Timeless
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Catharsis Pain World
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart
But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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Confronting Karma Past Want
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Feelings Kind Thinking
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Happen Happens Noihing
I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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Corner Functioning Imitating Resemblemnce Simply
How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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Disappointed Forward Looking Way
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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Go Letting Past Real
We buy balloons, we let them go.
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Balloons Buy Go Let
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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Evil Hands Ignorance
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Ideas Scream Want
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Knows Write Writing
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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Darkness Wind Woods

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.

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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.

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