The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
BRET EASTON ELLISPeople are afraid to merge.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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I have to return some videotapes
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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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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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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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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