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He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

Bret Easton Ellis

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 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 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
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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Men Misogynistic Thinking
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.
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Elude Gain Knoweledge Punishment
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
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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Dedication Skills Writing
People are afraid to merge.
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Afraid Merge People
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Ideas Scream Want
That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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Answer Girl Love Party Question
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
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
Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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Devastate Lowering Mental Mote Sunglasses
Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Deals People Rock Roll
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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Believe Narrator Smart
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

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He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

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