I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
BRET EASTON ELLISYes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He…ate a balanced diet.
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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.
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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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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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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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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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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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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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