Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
BRET EASTON ELLISThere 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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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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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On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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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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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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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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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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