I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
BRET EASTON ELLISOpen the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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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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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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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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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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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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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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I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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People are afraid to merge.
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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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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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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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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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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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
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