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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Bret Easton Ellis

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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Character Dad Female Mom Smart
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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Hollywood Levels Stories
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Feelings Joy Writing
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
When I’m writing a book, I’m not thinking, “Oh, this would be a great movie.” This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
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Book Great Interesting Medium Movie
If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it’s something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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Book Thinking Writing
Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Completely Demented Misogynist
We buy balloons, we let them go.
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Balloons Buy Go Let
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
But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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Confronting Karma Past Want
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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Angst Gay Singing
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Catharsis Pain World
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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Imagine Numbness Probably Relationship Tea
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
Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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Down Girl Real Street Sweet Think

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