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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

Bret Easton Ellis

I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Feelings Kind Thinking
Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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Night Running Thinking
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 move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
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Already Dead Less Mime Move Search
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Death Handful Stomach Through Zookeepers
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
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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Crazy Cruise Madness
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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Black Looks Sky
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
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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Character Ideas Way
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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Car People Phrases
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Happen Happens Noihing
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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Agreement Eerie Sight
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
My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Mask Sanity Slippage Vacation

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