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.
BRET EASTON ELLISI 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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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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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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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 have to return some videotapes
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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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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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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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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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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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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