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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.

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
Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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Loss Memories Rap
Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Deals People Rock Roll
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
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…
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Care Hair Mulling Over
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Anybody Ever Life Mean
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
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Happen Happens Noihing
At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath.
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Men Moving Odds
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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Two Writing Years
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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Evil Pain Punishment
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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People Snowflake Thinking
I’m not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he’s not in the mood and doesn’t feel the juice. I don’t think discipline equals creativity.
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Creativity Mean Writing
And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn’t remember if he was Catholic or not.
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Boy Boys Catholic Sex
I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Elude Gain Knoweledge Punishment
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Baby Book Heart

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