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I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

Bret Easton Ellis

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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Holding Mines People
I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.
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Assumptions Despite Everywhere Locked Permeated
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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Imagine Numbness Probably Relationship Tea
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don’t know. I think it’s a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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Female Males Medium Reason Thinking
So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
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Animal Audience Enjoyment Watch Zookeeper
On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
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Death Handful Stomach Through Zookeepers
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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Attraction Rules Taken Together
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Forever Greed Sex
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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Do Evil People Something
Hello, Halberstam,” Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen,” I say, admiring the way he’s styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it…
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Care Hair Mulling Over
I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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Novel Scene Touched
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Apart Attention Thing
I think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
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Choices Looks Thinking
Devastates 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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Devastate Lowering Mental Mote Sunglasses
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Anybody Ever Life Mean
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Happen Happens Noihing

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