I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
BRET EASTON ELLISDevastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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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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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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