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I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.

Bret Easton Ellis

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
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
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
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
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Feelings Joy Writing
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
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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Ends Party Shows
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
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Book Want Writing
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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Go Letting Past Real
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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Black Looks Sky
Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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Beautiful Bloodsign Boys Merge
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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Corner Functioning Imitating Resemblemnce Simply
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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Control Directors Money
I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
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Care Want Worry
And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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Feet Fire Twenties
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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Analysis Communicating Key Mind Rational

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